Mar 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

• My main area of ownership is data science leadership and supervision, I do it by identifying key business risks and realizing the data asset needs of the business. I also create new data sciences capabilities for envisioning and executing business strategies and build the data science talent at Glovo through role definition, recruitment, mentorship, and structure supporting company growth.

Apr 2020 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

• I managed the ML Platform, which empowers product at Glovo to achieve as much as possible with Machine Learning. We do it by developing and maintaining processes, tools and teams that guarantee the reliability, scalability and security of all Machine Learning products.

Jul 2018 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos · Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

• Recruit, coach, mentor and develop a team of 10+ AI engineers with experience in applied NLP research
• Set a vision for application of machine learning products at Unbabel
• Ensure the quality of the machine learning platform in production: establish and monitor KPIs, develop best practices and keep an eye on the state of the art
• Set the roadmap in partnership with other team and leadership
• Lead long term investments in machine learning
• Develop presentations and technical discussions to evangelize AI within Unbabel and beyond

Jan 2018 – Jul 2018 · 6 mos · The Randstad, Netherlands

• As a front-end product owner I created and optimized data science products for Booking.com users. Specifically
• I understood customer requirements want through data analysis and research and translated them into product goals, business objectives and together with the team into technical specifications and user stories.
• I formulated hypotheses from customer needs and work towards validating those through data driven methdologies (A/B testing, post-hoc analysis, etc).
• I took ownership & accountability of the products that I owned, prioritized new improvements, and worked together with my team to create a product roadmap.

Mar 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos · The Randstad, Netherlands

• I was a bridge between operations, product and stakeholders focusing on innovation and optimization of technologies and processes. I used my experience in research, technology development and management to improve customer experience and drive revenue growth.
• In particular, my main tasks are:
• Work on key product roadmaps, finding and testing improvements to maximize their commercial impact
• Innovate on commercial opportunities focusing on the scalability of tooling, processes and features used by partners and stakeholders
• Own, prioritize and brief for projects related to the optimization and automation of translation and localization, including various applications of machine translation
• Create and communicate OKRs for commercial team
• Liaise with product owners, data scientists, key company stakeholders and academia to accelerate innovation of company business model
• Track relevant industry changes and formulate what this means for the company

Jul 2015 – Jan 2016 · 6 mos · Greater Munich Metropolitan Area

• Transferred from bmmt GmbH to the parent company (Matrix Communications GmbH).
• Responsible for driving the Matrix Communications and beo-doc machine translation technology vision, strategy, innovation and digital product delivery.
• Building customizable machine translation engines and a robust set of tools to disrupt level of translation services to the next level and increase engagement and retention of machine translation tools.
• Communicate with stakeholders to gather requirements, develop, review and execute strategies to deploy machine translation solutions for Matrix Communications and beo-docs.
• In charge of the development and operations of the platform and apps for the machine translation online services.
• Building and maintaining relations with business & industry partners.

Feb 2014 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Munich Metropolitan Area

• Create, optimize, maintain and evaluate machine translation engines. Execute machine translation jobs and provide integration with CAT tools and IT services.
• Collect, consolidate, prepare data for machine translation. Post-process the output.
• Evaluate new technologies, provision consultation services for clients and internal company needs.
• Develop, review and execute marketing strategies and represent company at conferences and other events.
• Cooperate with translators and post-editors in the collection of best practices and creation of post-editing guidelines for machine translated content.

Jun 2011 – Jan 2014 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Amsterdam (Netherlands)

• Review, refine and develop the strategy of O/S machine translation direction in collaboration with the translation buyers and vendors.
• Coordinate technology-oriented university-industry collaborative projects.
• Responsible for the identification and development of best practices across the business in a range of translation instruments.
• Product manager for experimental and testing ground for industrial pilot MT projects.
• Participate in two European projects in the area of language technologies and represent the company at project annual reviews.
• Provide technical and strategy consulting services to the TAUS member organizations.

Aug 2009 – May 2011 · 1 yr 9 mos · Amsterdam (Netherlands)

• Developed an approach for learning source string permutation via transfer of the source syntax tree using machine learning techniques.
• Implemented and evaluated a tree-based word reordering system, performing source string permutation prior to statistical machine translation.
• Published the results of the work in highly ranked conferences and in Cambridge Journal of Natural Language Engineering.

Jun 2005 – Oct 2009 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Barcelona (Spain)

• Developed an approach to enhance classical machine translation models, introducing syntactic knowledge. Implemented and evaluated the system based on this approach.
• Implemented a continuous-space language model presented in the form of a neural network and evaluated the language model as a part of a machine translation system.
• Studied the power and limitations of statistical and syntax-based machine translation.
• Contributed to a number of multi-institutional European and National research projects.

Apr 2003 – May 2005 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Coimbra (Portugal)

• Participated in the European project dedicated to the assessment of efficiency of fuel cell energy services.
• Established a methodology to monitor sustainable energy market analysis of fuel cell installations. Developed the cost-benefit analysis software from scratch.
• Conducted comparative analysis of energy services options for European countries.

Apr 2001 – Feb 2003 · 1 yr 10 mos · St.Petersburg (Russia)

• Produced market research reports on company products and Russian energy market.
• Collected market data and evaluated information from diverse energy market sources.
• Analyzed qualitative & quantitative information to support and review new and existing marketing and sales strategies.

Oct 1998 – Feb 1999 · 4 mos · St.Petersburg (Russia)

• Responsible for FOREX trading and system analysis.
• Provided assistance on an ongoing basis to the sales group.
• Developed and tested a novel financial indicator based on neural networks.