
Carlos del Cacho
Verified Expert in Engineering
Machine Learning Developer
Madrid, Spain
Toptal member since November 2, 2019
With 15+ years of experience, Carlos has deep technical knowledge within the AI space. A rare breed with expertise in data engineering, data science, and general software architecture. A techie with a business heart, he has gained wisdom in online business models, retention strategies, churn analysis, LTV computation, and sales forecasting within a variety of industries.
Portfolio
Experience
- Apache Lucene - 9 years
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) - 8 years
- Machine Learning - 8 years
- Information Retrieval - 7 years
- Recommendation Systems - 7 years
- Text Mining - 7 years
- Web Scraping - 6 years
- Presales - 5 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Elasticsearch, Apache Lucene, Apache Spark, Scikit-learn, Java, R, Python
The most amazing...
...accomplishment thus far in life is keeping the curiosity of a toddler to continue learning after all these years.
Work Experience
Solutions Architect
Databricks
- Designed solutions for customers on top of the Databricks platform.
- Provided technical support to the sales team, delivered presentations and workshops to customers to close business.
- Assisted with deployments of the platform in a multi-cloud environment (AWS/Azure).
Big Data and AI Tech Lead
Paradigma Digital
- Consulted across several industries, including banking (consumer finance), media, and utilities.
- Provided project management within the data science space, leading teams of up to five individual contributors.
- Hired and screened technical staff, including data scientists, data engineers, big data architects, and data governance consultants.
Data Science Manager
Stratio Big Data
- Segmented products in sales levels using unsupervised machine learning for personalized treatment when building predictive models.
- Overhauled the architecture to improve the scalability of the system. Performing 20 million daily regressions within a demand forecasting problem in a distributed cluster in less than 8 hours.
- Led a data science team of five engineers within a demand forecasting project in retail.
- Developed new business development and analytics (presales). Held a 30% conversion rate from proposal to contract in data science projects over my tenure in presales.
- Assisted deals in retail, media, education, banking, marketing, and utility industry sectors.
Chief Data Scientist
Jobandtalent
- Designed and implemented a matching algorithm for job offer recommendations based on conditional relevance models by analyzing career paths in resume databases.
- Doubled the conversion rate of the recommender pipeline with the algorithm, resulting in an equivalent increase in the number of monthly job applications.
- Prototyped a system for improving customer segmentation in email marketing in order to increase sales of online courses, with the idea of targeting users at the micro-level as opposed to targeting them by area of expertise.
- Created a distributed system on top of Elastic MapReduce for tuning machine learning hyperparameters, accelerating run time of grid searches by 50x in an information retrieval application.
- Proactively wrote a tool to automate dashboard generation and trained the BI team on its usage, shaving weekly hours of routine work from their schedule.
- Delivered lectures to co-workers on Information Retrieval concepts.
- Authored feature description specifications for several modules, defining the long term vision of the recommendation algorithm.
- Screened machine learning engineers in hiring processes conducting knowledge assessments within area of expertise.
Experience
Sentiment Analysis for Political Forecasting
Recommender System for Olympic Channel
https://www.olympicchannel.comCredit Risk Scoring for a Financial Institution
https://www.bancosantander.esDemand Forecasting for an F500 Retailer
Inventory Storage for an Order Management System
Education
Master's Degree in Artificial Intelligence
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid - Madrid, Spain
Progress towards a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics
UNED - Madrid, Spain
Master's Degree in Computer Science
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid - Madrid, Spain
Certifications
AWS Solutions Architect Associate
Amazon Web Services
Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
Google via Coursera
Essential Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation
Google via Coursera
Convolutional Neural Networks
deeplearning.ai via Coursera
Structuring Machine Learning Projects
deeplearning.ai via Coursera
Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization
deeplearning.ai via Coursera
Neural Networks and Deep Learning
deeplearning.ai via Coursera
Excel Skills for Business: Advanced
Macquarie University via Coursera
Excel Skills for Business: Intermediate II
Macquarie University via Coursera
Excel Skills for Business: Intermediate I
Macquarie University via Coursera
Excel Skills for Business: Essentials
Macquarie University via Coursera
Cost and Economics in Pricing Strategy
University of Virgina via Coursera
Trading Algorithms
Indian School of Business via Coursera
Google Analytics Certification
Google Adwords Certification
Foundations of Business Strategy
University of Virginia via Coursera
Entrepreneurship 1: Developing the Opportunity
University of Pennsylvania via Coursera
Advanced Business Strategy
University of Virginia via Coursera
Operations Analytics
University of Pennsylvania via Coursera
Customer Analytics
University of Pennsylvania via Coursera
Data Visualization
University of Illinois via Coursera
Text Mining and Analytics
University of Illinois via Coursera
Introduction to Big Data with Apache Spark
Databricks via EdX
Cluster Analysis in Data Mining
University of Illinois via Coursera
Text Retrieval and Search Engines
University of Illinois via Coursera
Pattern Discovery in Data Mining
University of Illinois via Coursera
Data Analysis and Statistical Inference
Duke University via Coursera
Model Thinking
University of Michigan via Coursera
Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop
Cloudera
Computing for Data Analysis
Johns Hopkins University via Coursera
Networked Life (Social Network Analysis)
University of Pennsylvania via Coursera
Game Theory
Stanford University via Coursera
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Apache Lucene, SpaCy, PySpark, Scikit-learn, NumPy, SciPy, XGBoost, CatBoost
Tools
Apache Solr, Cloudera, Impala, Hue, BigQuery, Weka, Google Analytics, Git, Kudu
Languages
R, Python, SQL, Java, PHP, C++, JavaScript
Frameworks
Hadoop, Apache Spark, Spark, LightGBM
Paradigms
Scrum, Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), Linear Programming, Business Intelligence (BI), MapReduce, Anomaly Detection, ETL
Storage
Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Apache Hive, Redis, HDFS, NoSQL, Data Validation, Redshift, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), RapidMiner, Google Ads, AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2, Kubernetes, H2O Deep Learning Platform, Docker
Industry Expertise
Retail & Wholesale
Other
Machine Learning, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Web Scraping, Text Mining, Recommendation Systems, Presales, Statistics, Big Data, Scalability, Predictive Analytics, Association Rule Learning, Information Retrieval, Gradient Boosted Trees, Topic Modeling, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Neural Networks, Linear Regression, Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), Economics, Financial Markets, Cloud Storage, Email Marketing, Online Marketing, Business Strategy, Data Mining, Churn Analysis, Acquisition Analysis, Marketing Attribution, Bayesian Statistics, Genetic Algorithms, A/B Testing, Deep Learning, Support Vector Machines (SVM), Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Logistic Regression, Random Forests, Naive Bayes, Text Classification, Sentiment Analysis, Kubernetes Operations (kOps), Data Science, Model Validation, Lambda Functions
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