Alex Santos
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at European Commission
Sydney, New South Wales, Belgium
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Top SchoolAlex Santos is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 8 years of experience designing and deploying scalable, real-time ML systems across cybersecurity, news intelligence, and finance. He has led AI team formation at the European Commission, integrating privacy-conscious, open-source LLM solutions for incident triage, and previously improved engagement and redundancy in high-throughput RAG and clustering pipelines at Klue. Deeply practical, Alex combines hands-on fine-tuning (LoRA/qLoRA), vector search, and production tooling (k8s, Docker, FastAPI, Pinecone) to move models from research into robust APIs processing millions of documents. He also teaches applied calculus for ML and has a diverse academic background spanning aerospace engineering to a Master's in AI, reflecting an unusual blend of systems thinking and mathematical rigor. Colleagues rely on him for cross-functional leadership, mentoring, and setting technical vision that aligns ML research with operational impact.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Nanodegree Reinforcement Learning Computer Science, Nanodegree Reinforcement Learning Computer Science at UdacityBachelor in Aerospace Engineering, Bachelor in Aerospace Engineering at Universidad de CádizApplied Machine Learning Computer Science, Applied Machine Learning Computer Science at Columbia EngineeringDevOps Computer Software Engineering, DevOps Computer Software Engineering at Linux AcademyERASMUS Scholarship - Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik, ERASMUS Scholarship - Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik at Technische Hochschule WildauThe University of SydneyBachelor in Aerospace Engineering, Bachelor in Aerospace Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Spanish, English, German
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Github Skills (109)
python10
deep-learning10
data-science10
tensorflow10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
jax9
inpainting9
evaluation9
data-api9
public-transport9
computer-vision8
neural-network8
openapi8
few-shot-learning8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
surroundaustralia/ogcldapi
Mar 2021 - Jun 2021
OGC LD API using FastAPI backened
Contributions:65 commits in 2 months
apipythonasyncioogcfastapi
alejandrods/Image-Colorization
Oct 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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