Alejandro Salamanca
Senior Research Engineer at Cohere
Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolAlejandro Salamanca is a Senior Research Engineer with 13 years of experience bridging mathematical modelling and production-grade ML systems across startups and large tech firms. He has advanced LLMs, tokenizers, and multilingual research at Cohere after honing applied machine learning and data engineering at Unity, Meta, and Zendesk, and scaling infrastructure at Shopify. Trained in mathematical modelling (DTU) and artificial intelligence (KU Leuven), he combines theoretical rigor with practical engineering—shipping CI/CD, database sharding, and latency-prioritization systems in high-impact environments. Based in Spain, Alejandro brings a rare mix of research-first thinking and hands-on infrastructure expertise, and his background in differential privacy and computation hints at a strong interest in principled, privacy-aware ML.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor’s Degree, Artificial Intelligence at KU LeuvenCharles III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)Technical University of Denmark
Spanish, English
Github Skills (131)
transformers10
python10
lora10
animation10
fine-tuning10
drawable10
adapter10
pytorch10
peft10
llm10
aggregator9
javascript9
yarnpkg9
evaluation-framework9
html9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/shield-study-rappor
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 7 PRs, 88 pushes in 1 month
shield-studyrappordifferential-privacyaddon
alexrs/FontPagerTitleStrip
May 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:25 commits in 5 months
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