Francisco Roque
Founder And CEO at Nortech AI
Bergen, Vestland, Norway
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Top SchoolFrancisco Roque is a founder and CEO with 14 years of experience building data-driven products and leading teams across Digitalization, IoT, Big Data, Data Science, and Machine Learning. He founded Nortech AI to turn industrial sensor data into cost-saving decisions and previously co-founded and served as CTO of UNSILO, scaling an AI-driven semantic search product to enterprise publishers. His background combines academic rigor—a PhD in Systems Biology and postdoctoral work on large-scale biomedical pipelines—with hands-on engineering in Python, Java, cloud (AWS), and production ML systems. He has led product delivery from prototype to production in domains as diverse as personalized media, predictive maintenance for marine engineering, and public transit optimization. Francisco also brings governance experience as a board observer and advisory roles, reflecting a blend of technical leadership and strategic, commercial insight. Notably, his career bridges deep bioinformatics research and practical industrial AI, enabling him to translate complex data problems into operational products.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Systems Biology, Ph.D., Systems Biology at Danmarks Tekniske UniversitetTechnical University of DenmarkMSc., Biomedical Engineering, MSc., Biomedical Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Portuguese, Norwegian, Danish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (31)
macos6
flask6
package6
mapreduce6
google-app-engine6
python6
blob-store6
memory-leaks6
collaborative-filtering5
implicit5
matrix-factorization5
recommendation-system4
machine-learning4
datasets4
recommender-system4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
fsroque/twitter-kafka
Oct 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
fsroque/docker-stacks
Oct 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:2 pushes in 3 months
jupyter-notebookdockerjupyterlabready-to-runstacks
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