Alberto Rodriguez
Engineering Lead at SmartWiz.io
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlberto Rodriguez is an engineering lead and former CTO with a decade of programming experience and over five years specializing in AI-driven solutions for software engineering. He built SAFA.ai from a PhD research prototype into a production-grade platform, integrating BERT and generative models into traceability and documentation generation workflows and earning a provisional patent along the way. As a hands-on leader he scaled and mentored a small engineering team, steered multiple product pivots, and partnered with organizations like LHP, NASA, and Foxconn. His work blends rigorous research—publishing on prompt engineering—with practical system-building, moving models from experiments into reliable pipelines. Now based in Chicago and leading engineering at SmartWiz.io, he continues to bridge academic depth and industry impact while pursuing a PhD in computer science. An uncommon strength is his fluency in translating prompt engineering insights into concrete traceability algorithms that improve developer productivity.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Vintage High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Notre Dame
Github Skills (45)
sentence9
evaluation9
roberta8
sentence-similarity8
stream8
similarity8
electra8
sentence-embeddings7
multilingual7
word-embeddings7
fetch7
python7
nlp7
fetch-api6
natural-language-processing6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
thearod5/Dank-O-Meter
Mar 2019 - Feb 2024
Helping Marijuana users identify and rate the unknown strains
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
unknownmarijuanaidentify
thearod5/TraceLinkExplainer
Jun 2020 - Mar 2022
An experiment designed to explore different methods of explaining traces between software artifacts.
Contributions:46 PRs, 122 pushes, 48 branches in 1 year 8 months
tracesartifactsexplore
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