Elías Cataldi
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Universidad de Montevideo
Uruguay
Summary
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Top SchoolElías Cataldi is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with nine years of experience bridging academic research and industry delivery, currently working at Reddit and lecturing in computer vision at Universidad de Montevideo. He holds an MSc in AI from ENS Paris-Saclay and is pursuing a PhD in Electrical Engineering, bringing strong theoretical foundations to practical ML systems. Elías has led R&D teams and shipped production ML pipelines across startups and scaleups, including retention and cross-selling solutions that drove measurable business impact. His background spans computer vision, MARL research, signal processing and remote sensing, enabling rapid adaptation to new domains and problem formulations. Known for introducing engineering practices such as DVC for reproducible experiments, he combines hands-on model building with team leadership and academic rigor.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree MVA (Mathematics Vision Learning), Master's degree MVA (Mathematics Vision Learning) at ENS Paris-SaclayDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Universidad de la República
English, Spanish, Portuguese, French
Github Skills (15)
graph7
statistics6
machine-learning6
python6
data-science5
proximal-policy-optimization4
optimization3
simulator3
reinforcement-learning-environments2
reinforcement-learning2
playgrounds2
deep-reinforcement-learning2
simulation1
pybullet1
physics1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
emasquil/emasquil
Dec 2021 - May 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
emasquil/hugo-blog
Apr 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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