Alvaro Bartolome
Machine Learning Engineer at Hugging Face
Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain
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Top SchoolAlvaro Bartolome is a Machine Learning Engineer with eight years of experience now leading inference and cloud-focused tooling at Hugging Face. He blends production ML engineering with open-source impact—contributions include model serving and inference work in PyTorch Serve and Hugging Face projects like trl, text-generation-inference, and datasets, plus a useful financial-data extractor on GitHub. His background spans research and industry roles (Frontiers, Argilla) and an MSc in AI, reflecting a strong foundation in both experimentation and deployment. Notably, he has hands-on experience integrating model optimizations (LoRA, DeepLabV3) and scalable indexing (Faiss) into widely used ML infrastructure, underscoring a practical focus on making models efficient and production-ready.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MSc in Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, 9,23/10, MSc in Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, 9,23/10 at UNIRBachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of Salamanca
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (44)
data-analysis10
pytorch10
python10
testing10
pandas10
machine-learning10
inference10
webscraping10
reinforcement-learning10
datasets10
transformer-models10
image-segmentation10
huggingface10
deep-learning10
segmentation10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
alvarobartt/investpy
Nov 2018 - Oct 2022
Financial Data Extraction from Investing.com with Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:65 releases, 19 reviews, 591 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Alvaro made significant changes related to data retrieval. They indexed data and applied filters. They also addressed code parsing errors, and refactored some data structures.
data-extractionpythoninvesting-apihistorical-datainvesting
huggingface/text-generation-inference
Jul 2024 - Mar 2026
Large Language Model Text Generation Inference
Role in this project:ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:23 reviews, 17 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Alvaro primarily contributes to the implementation and support of machine learning models within the text generation inference framework. Their commits include adding support for LoRA adapters for Gemma2, which involves modifying core model components and integrating new layers. They also address build issues related to specific features and perform updates related to the Vertex AI integration, indicating involvement in model deployment and integration with cloud services. Furthermore, the user includes improvements in the chat template and handles of new language functions.
inferencelarge-language-modelstext-generationbloomnlp
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