Summary
Camilo Zapata is a Senior Engineering Manager specializing in ML systems with seven years of hands-on experience building and scaling production machine learning infrastructure from research to deployment. With a Master’s in Physics from ETH Zürich and a background that ranges from academic instruction to founding ML startups and shipping an iOS app, he blends rigorous scientific thinking with product-focused engineering. At LandingAI he progressed from ML Engineer to Senior Engineering Manager, leading teams that operationalize computer vision and ML pipelines for real-world industrial use cases. He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and brings a practical entrepreneur’s mindset—having earned a Best Pitch Award at ETH EC—and experience mentoring engineers and teaching complex technical subjects. Not obviously visible from titles, he’s comfortable across the stack: research, systems engineering, and applied product development.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Studies, iOS App Development, Professional Studies, iOS App Development at New York University
Master’s Degree, Physics, Master’s Degree, Physics at ETH Zürich
Universidad de los Andes
Spanish, English, French