Danilo Acuña
Software And Machine Learning Engineer at John Snow Labs
Ecuador
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Top SchoolDanilo Acuña is a software and machine learning engineer with over a decade of experience building scalable backend and NLP systems, currently evolving Spark NLP with rule-based and deep learning annotators on Apache Spark. He blends strong academic training—a master's in computer science from Swiss universities—and hands-on industry work across John Snow Labs, ThoughtWorks and StratioBD to deliver distributed, production-ready pipelines in Scala, Java, Python and TensorFlow. His background spans microservices, hexagonal architectures and big data processing, while he also teaches and researches ML, time series and NLP at a university level. An active open-source contributor, he focuses on making NLP components performant and maintainable in large-scale environments. Based in Ecuador, he combines pragmatic engineering with a researcher’s rigor and ambition to lead multicultural teams solving complex ML infrastructure problems.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Escuela Politécnica NacionalMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.9/6, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.9/6 at Universität BernMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.9/6, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.9/6 at Université de NeuchâtelMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.9/6, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.9/6 at Université de Fribourg/Universität FreiburgStatistics with R Specialization, MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS, Statistics with R Specialization, MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS at Duke University
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (56)
language-detection10
transformers10
spark-ml10
machine-translation10
apache-spark10
spark10
named-entity-recognition10
entity-extraction10
snow10
machine-learning10
pyspark10
onnx10
apache10
llamacpp10
text-classification10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
danilojsl/scala-spikes
Dec 2021 - May 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
danilojsl/java-spikes
Nov 2022 - Mar 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
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