Jorge Castañón
AI Forward Deployed Engineer at IBM
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJorge Castañón is a Principal AI Engineer with over a decade of experience turning advanced math and machine learning research into practical, revenue-driving AI solutions for enterprise clients. Based in Palo Alto, he leads Generative AI strategy and adoption across IBM Client Engineering Americas, shaping roadmaps, reusable assets, and go-to-market enablement for 1,500+ practitioners. A PhD in Computational and Applied Mathematics, he combines deep expertise in optimization, compressive imaging and ML systems with hands-on delivery across industries from finance to healthcare. He has a track record of scaling small agile squads to production, advising product teams, and communicating complex ideas to executives and engineers alike. An applied mathematician and art lover who writes technical blogs, he blends rigorous theory with a creative eye for practical model design and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computational and Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice UniversityBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Applied Mathematics at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Spanish, English
Github Skills (8)
pyspark10
twitter10
data-science9
word2vec9
machine-learning9
spark9
watson-studio4
visualization2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
IBMDataScience/word2vec
Oct 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:47 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
IBMDataScience/autoai
Sep 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:19 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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