Ignacio Palma is a data scientist with eight years of experience building scalable ML and NLP solutions across tech leaders like TELUS, Microsoft, and Uber, currently focused on AI acceleration in Vancouver. He has shipped production features that reached hundreds of thousands of users and handled multi-terabyte datasets, combining strengths in time series forecasting, deep learning, and big data engineering. Ignacio bridges research and product: his academic work on abstractive summarization culminated in a conference paper, while his industry roles delivered forecasting and recommendation systems with MLOps pipelines. Technically fluent in Python, C/C++, C#, R and tools from Spark to TensorFlow and PyTorch, he also brings teaching and mentoring experience from university and outreach roles. Outside of engineering he pursues photography and home automation, reflecting a practical creative streak that informs his data-driven solutions.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at International Baccalaureate
Profesional Title (Master Equivalent) Computer Science, Profesional Title (Master Equivalent) Computer Science at Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria
Contributions:34 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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Ignacio Palma - Data Scientist II - AI Accelerator