Juan Padilla

Machine Learning Technical Leader. Data Scientist. 

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Data Scientist with extensive professional and research experience. Professional in statistics

(National University of Colombia, Bogota) with a master's degree in statistics (University of

Campinas, Brazil), Ph.D. in statistics (University of Campinas, Brazil) and master's degree in

systems engineering and computer science (in progress, National University of Colombia,

Bogota). Additionally, I have:

● More than 7 years of experience in different fields of Machine Learning (ML), e.g. natural

language processing, computer vision and statistical learning;

● More than 7 years of experience in the area of predictive modeling, data science, price

setting and analytics;

● 4+ years of experience leading ML projects;

● 4+ years of experience in Cloud Computing (Google Cloud Computing GCP and

Amazon Web Services AWS);

● Extensive experience in ML engineer or data scientist roles, building ETLs flows,

developing ML models and supporting their deployment;

● 8+ years of programming experience in Python and R;

● Experience with ML tools and libraries such as Scikit-learn and TensorFlow;

● Extensive experience writing and speaking about technical concepts to business,

technical and non-specialist audiences and making data-driven presentations;

● Fluency in Spanish, English and Portuguese.

Undergraduate in statistics Universidad Nacional de

Colombia 2011

Master's Degree in Statistics Campinas University-Brasil 2014

Master's Degree in Finance

Andes University -Colombia 2021

Master's Degree in Systems

Engineering and Computer Science*

Universidad Nacional de

Colombia 2022

Ph.D. in Statistics Campinas University-Brasil 2018