Abel Abad
Lead Ai Engineer at Snowdrop Solutions
Malaga, Andalusia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolAbel Abad is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer based in Málaga with 10 years of experience bridging NLP research and production-grade ML systems. He designs scalable pipelines and hybrids traditional ML with LLMs—leveraging Vertex AI, Gemini-family models and BigQuery ML—to enrich and classify financial transaction data for Snowdrop Solutions. Previously he led ML teams and products across startups and research organizations, shipping anonymization, NER and semantic-similarity solutions using PyTorch, SpaCy and FastAPI. Comfortable as a hands-on engineer, technical lead and product manager, he has a strong background in agile practices and open-science collaboration stemming from academic research and university teaching. An under-the-radar strength is his end-to-end fluency from academic NLP methods to cloud-native deployment, which speeds iteration on intelligent business rules and real-world data enrichment.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Former Phd Candidate, Computer Science, Former Phd Candidate, Computer Science at UCLVIngeniero en Telecomunicaciones y Electrónica, Ingeniero en Telecomunicaciones y Electrónica at Universidad Politécnica de La Habana
Github Skills (30)
text-normalization9
stopwords9
digital-humanities8
preprocessing8
levenshtein-distance7
edit-distance7
cosine-similarity6
corpus-linguistics6
python6
lda6
similarity5
machine-learning5
corpus5
fasttext4
natural-language-processing4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sorice/tf-examples2020
Oct 2019 - Jan 2024
Collection of notebooks to learn and practice ANN with tf v1.13
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
annnotebookstensorflowtensorflow2
sorice/wordembeded
Mar 2018 - Jul 2022
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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