Summary
Jorge Palombarini is a Machine Learning Technical Leader with a Ph.D. in Information Systems Engineering and over eight years of industry experience, currently leading ML teams at Mercado Libre on real-time detection and moderation of prohibited items, fakes, and toxic language. He blends deep academic roots—as a former associate professor, CONICET researcher, and Ph.D. supervisor—with hands-on delivery of production-grade predictive systems and offline reinforcement learning solutions for Ads and Seller Assistant products. His research background in deep reinforcement learning and real-time rescheduling informs practical ML engineering choices, enabling robust MVPs in summarization, clustering of customer feedback, and large-scale moderation. Known for bridging formal process modeling with applied cognitive architectures, he has repeatedly translated complex decision-process research into commercial software. Based in Argentina, he pairs a strong publication and teaching record with pragmatic product impact across cross-functional teams.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor en Ingeniería Mención Sistemas de Información Informatics, Doctor en Ingeniería Mención Sistemas de Información Informatics at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
English