Amelio Vázquez-Reina is a Software Engineering Manager with 12 years of experience leading ML-driven products and teams, currently incubating generative media efforts at Google Labs after heading Memories ML and backend for Google Photos. He combines deep research roots—a CS Ph.D. and pioneering work in connectomics and multimodal neuroanalysis—with hands-on product delivery across industry, from Raytheon/BBN and Harvard to dataxu and Mastercard. At Mastercard he scaled cloud-native, serverless data platforms and launched customer-facing AI products, while at dataxu he led optimization work that materially improved bidding efficiency and revenue. Known for bridging rigorous research and production engineering, he has repeatedly turned novel algorithms into high-impact, cost-saving systems. Based in Palo Alto, he balances strategic leadership with a history of publishing and DARPA program involvement that informs his approach to complex, data-rich problems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, Electrical and Computer Engineering, B.Sc, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Universidad de Alcalá
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Tufts University
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