Andrés Talero
Machine Learning Engineer at Spotify
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAndrés Talero is a Machine Learning Engineer with nine years of industry experience and a Columbia M.S. in Computer Science, specializing in taking applied ML projects from concept to production across startups and large tech companies. He has deep hands-on expertise in computer vision, multimodal transformers, metric learning, and practical model optimization—having managed million-image labeling efforts and deployed models with K8s, Docker, and TensorRT. At Snap he advanced visual retrieval and multimodal ad ranking through transformer-based signals and LLM fine-tuning, and he now continues this trajectory at Spotify. Comfortable bridging research and engineering, Andrés pairs rigorous evaluation and A/B testing with infra and cost-conscious dataset design. He’s also contributed to consumer-facing shopping features (e.g., Screenshop/Snap visual commerce) and maintains an active GitHub presence.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Web Development, Certificate Web Development at freeCodeCampMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Columbia UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Geological Science and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Geological Science and Computer Science at University of MiamiThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
English, Spanish, Chinese, French
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Github Skills (6)
git8
github8
patch7
subversion5
prediction2
machine-learning1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
atalero/summarization_embeddings
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:21 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
atalero/Black-Jack
Mar 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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