Jacobo Del Valle
Research Scientist at DeepL
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJacobo Del Valle is a research scientist at DeepL with 11 years of engineering and data science experience focused on language AI and applied NLP. He combines academic training in computational linguistics from Universität des Saarlandes and Charles University with hands-on roles at Amazon Alexa NLU and healthcare and risk analytics teams, translating research advances into production-ready solutions. Comfortable across research and software engineering, he has contributed to high-profile open-source projects like the Dolphin emulator, improving emulation core, UI, and NetPlay reliability. His background spans backend development, data science, and teaching, reflecting an ability to communicate complex ideas and ship robust systems. Based in Cologne, he actively follows and experiments with the latest language-model breakthroughs to find practical applications beyond academic novelty.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidad GalileoMaster's degree, Computational Linguistics, Master's degree, Computational Linguistics at Universität des SaarlandesMaster's degree, Computational Linguistics, Master's degree, Computational Linguistics at Charles University
Spanish, German, English
Github Skills (10)
c-language10
cpp10
emulation10
cprogramming-language10
cube9
g9
wii9
wiiu9
ui-design8
wxwidgets7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
dolphin-emu/dolphin
Jul 2015 - Sep 2016
Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements.
Role in this project:
Software Engineer (focused on emulation core and UI)
Software Engineer (focused on emulation core and UI)Contributions:9 commits, 8 PRs, 30 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Jacobo primarily contributed to the Dolphin emulator's codebase by addressing code style issues, introducing cheat settings within the boot manager configuration, and standardizing the use of constants. They also fixed a focus-related bug in the render to main window feature. The user further worked on improving the NetPlay feature by ensuring the NetPlay window remembers its size and position, and standardized the settings for the NetPlay and traversal configurations.
gameboycppemulatorgamesplatforms
clinchergt/dolphin
Jul 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:74 pushes, 23 branches in 1 year 9 months
gameboyemulatorgamesplatformsgamecube
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