Fernando Sanz
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Lakera
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolFernando Sanz is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer based in Zurich with nine years of experience building production ML systems that bridge research and business impact. He has driven high-stakes marketplace optimization at Expedia—delivering auction-aware learning-to-rank models that produced $10M+ in incremental revenue—and now focuses on AI-driven products at Lakera. Comfortable across the ML lifecycle, he engineers scalable AWS/GCP pipelines, CI/CD, and multi-objective optimization while integrating LLMs for tasks like review summarization. His background includes academic research in transfer learning at Ericsson and teaching deep learning and AI at KTH, reflecting a strong theoretical foundation paired with practical deployment skills. A polyglot engineer with internships at IBM and telecom experience, he maintains cross-institutional project work visible on GitHub from KTH, UC3M and UTS, signaling a habit of collaborative, reproducible research and engineering.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Charles III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)Master of Science - MS, Machine Learning, Master of Science - MS, Machine Learning at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering at University of Technology Sydney
Spanish, English, French, Swedish, Italian
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Github Skills (16)
pddl9
integer-programming9
apache-spark6
vehicle-routing-problem6
scala6
reinforcement-learning5
deep-reinforcement-learning4
artificial-intelligence3
visual-studio-code1
prediction1
vscode1
databricks1
python1
vscode-extension1
dog1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
fernando2393/FixMatch-Exploration
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:37 commits, 1 push in 19 days
fernando2393-UC3M/Data-Bases
Mar 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 43 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 1 month
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