Summary
Javier Machin is a Senior Data Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable ETL pipelines and cloud-native data platforms for financial systems, currently architecting high-performance solutions at Capital One using AWS, Snowflake, and Kafka. He combines hands-on engineering with teaching: as a Harvard SEAS Teaching Fellow he mentors students in data science, MLOps, and LLMOps, translating research-grade AI concepts into production-ready practices. Javier also runs Besides Data LLC, consulting on ETL, BI, and AI for finance, biotech, and healthcare, and his background spans startups to central banking—designing secure payment systems and enterprise analytics. A practitioner of applied AI, he has formal training in LLM techniques (transformers, RAG) from a Harvard workshop and applies those insights to automate and augment financial workflows.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineer Computer Science, Computer Engineer Computer Science at Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas
Master's degree Ciencias de la computación, Master's degree Ciencias de la computación at Postgrado de la Escuela de Ingeniería - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
English, Spanish