Florian Leitner
Head Of Machine Learning, ION Analytics
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolFlorian Leitner is a Head of Machine Learning with 11+ years turning ambiguous, mission-critical problems into production AI systems across capital markets, pharma, and fintech. Based in Madrid, he builds and coaches Data & ML teams that automate IPO, M&A, high-yield bond and loan workflows, combining first-principles thinking, statistics, and a grounding in molecular biology. He moves between research and product fluently—former bioNLP postdoc and PhD turned engineering leader and faculty at IE University—so he excels at translating complex domain knowledge into robust recommenders, search, automation, and predictive analytics. Known for setting a high bar while inviting productive conflict, he focuses on culture, craft, and measurable impact rather than vanity metrics. A polyglot engineer by practice, he brings both academic rigor and practical delivery experience to scale Data & AI organizations.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at Universidad Autónoma de MadridMaster of Science (MSc), Master of Science (MSc) at Universität Wien
German, Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (165)
tuple10
sentence10
windows10
to-do10
wordnet10
phonetics10
javascript10
splitter10
keyword-extraction10
orthographic10
linux10
spanish10
tokenizer10
shell10
evernote10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
fnl/segtok
Jan 2017 - Dec 2021
Segtok v2 is here: https://github.com/fnl/syntok -- A rule-based sentence segmenter (splitter) and a word tokenizer using orthographic features.
Contributions:29 commits, 6 PRs, 51 pushes in 4 years 11 months
rulesegmenterphoneticsstopwordsorthographic
fnl/vimrc
Jan 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:141 commits, 116 pushes in 5 years 11 months
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