Armand Ruiz
Director PM - AI Stuff at Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArmand Ruiz is a seasoned AI product leader with 11 years of experience building large-scale generative and traditional ML platforms, currently directing AI Platform product management at Meta after leading IBM’s watsonx portfolio. He has a track record of scaling teams and products—recruiting and reskilling hundreds of engineers, managing 90+ data scientists, and delivering enterprise-ready generative AI pilots and watsonx.ai/government offerings. Armand blends technical depth from a Telecommunications Engineering MS with pragmatic product instincts, consistently moving projects from pilot to production. Known for steering cross-functional organizations, he focuses on practical, responsible AI that moves beyond hype to measurable business outcomes. An early career in radio optimization and even coaching tennis reveals a long-standing habit of analytical coaching and performance optimization applied to teams and systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Russian, French, English, Catalan, Spanish
Github Skills (124)
arcgis9
htmlwidgets9
js-charts9
arcgis-js-api9
jupyterlab9
spatial-analysis9
binder9
venn-diagram9
esri9
exchange8
ipython8
data-management8
notebook8
estimate8
data-science-experience8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
IBMPredictiveAnalytics/Plot_Heatmaps
Apr 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:19 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
IBMPredictiveAnalytics/Plot_Geospatial_Data
Apr 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:43 commits, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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