Summary
Francisco Salgado is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer based in Berlin with 10 years of experience building and deploying computer vision, NLP and ML solutions across cloud, mobile and edge environments. He has led end-to-end product deliveries—shipping face biometrics for automotive and mobile customers and porting speech generation to ultra low-power AI chips—while managing teams and technical recruitment. Skilled in MLOps and IaC, he has implemented scalable production pipelines using Python, MLflow, Azure and Databricks feature stores to bridge research prototypes and customer-facing systems. His background in research-driven prototype work includes synthetic data generation from 3D CAD models and deployed perception pilots for industrial settings, reflecting a practical focus on data efficiency and robustness. Fluent in bringing models to constrained hardware and real users, he combines hands-on engineering with a track record of moving advanced algorithms into reliable products.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus Exchange Program Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Erasmus Exchange Program Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Twente, Netherlands
Master's Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master's Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Portuguese