Héctor Alonso
Engineering Manager at Apple
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHéctor Alonso is an Engineering Manager in Cambridge with 11 years of experience applying computational linguistics and machine learning to real-world natural language understanding problems, currently leading NLU efforts for Siri at Apple. He holds a PhD in Computational Linguistics and has a strong research background in lexical semantics, dependency syntax, semi-supervised learning and linguistic annotation from roles at Inria, the University of Copenhagen and Thomson Reuters. Héctor combines hands-on Python engineering with scientific leadership—building deployed tools like a Danish supersense tagger and leading annotation-driven ML projects funded by national agencies. He is comfortable moving work from academic prototypes to production NLU systems and brings a rare mix of deep linguistic expertise and product-focused engineering management.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaMaster of Arts (M.A.), Linguistics, Master of Arts (M.A.), Linguistics at Universitat Pompeu FabraUPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Linguistics, Cum Laude, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Linguistics, Cum Laude at Københavns Universitet
Spanish, Catalan, English, German, Danish, French, Arabic
Github Skills (11)
javascript8
documentation8
thai8
kebab-case6
semantic5
solr5
nlp5
natural-language-processing4
corpus4
python3
text-processing3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hectormartinez/hectormartinez.github.io
Jul 2015 - Mar 2024
Contributions:56 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 8 months
hectormartinez/ud_unsup_parser
Feb 2016 - Jun 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 51 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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