Andrés Montero
Lead Data Scientist
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrés Montero is a Lead Data Scientist in Ottawa with a Ph.D. in Computer Science and over a decade of hands-on experience designing and delivering production ML and analytics products. He has led high-profile, cross-agency projects at Statistics Canada—managing product delivery, cloud-native ETL, microservices, and information extraction for clients including PHAC and Health Canada—while earning awards for innovation during a major cloud migration. As a former co-founder and CTO, he built end-to-end computer vision solutions for detection, re-identification, and tracking, and managed research teams combining academic rigour with product focus. His background spans academia and industry, from postdoctoral research in deep learning to architecting scalable web and GIS platforms, giving him a rare mix of research depth and operational delivery. Andrés pairs agile technical leadership with a track record of building organizational capacity and reproducible cloud products that move from prototype to policy-facing deployments. Not obvious from his title: he started his career building network and campus IT tools, which grounded his pragmatic approach to systems reliability and security.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Ottawa / Université d'OttawaBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Havana
Spanish, English
Github Skills (45)
opencv10
bootstrap10
python10
image-processing10
css10
deep-learning10
computer-vision10
javascript9
responsive9
sass9
html9
depth-camera8
mobile-first8
polygons7
kubernetes7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
asolis/Annotate
Apr 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:61 commits, 6 PRs, 55 pushes in 3 months
polygonstruthannotation-toolannotationground
asolis/asolis.github.io
Oct 2015 - Jul 2024
Contributions:99 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 10 months
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