JoseĀ Llarena
Independent Researcher at Self-employed
Cambridge, England, Spain
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Top SchoolJose Llarena is an independent ML researcher and engineer with 13 years of experience in speech and language processing, now based in Cambridge while preparing for a PhD. He has a strong track record across the ASR stack from data collection to decoding, having led productisation of neural text normalization for six languages at Speechmatics. Earlier roles span NLP and R&D engineering, entrepreneurship (founding sequenter.com and varsaa.com), and foundational software development dating back to Nortel and Searchspace. His academic background in AI and Speech & Language Processing (Sussex and Edinburgh) underpins a practical research focus, and he publishes progress and reproducible artifacts on his project site. Notably, he combines product-facing delivery with deep research instincts, often bridging prototype research and production-ready systems.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Speech and Language Processing, Speech and Language Processing at The University of EdinburghArtificial Intelligence, 2:1, Artificial Intelligence, 2:1 at University of Sussex
German
Github Skills (13)
dictionary10
python4
strings3
verify3
java2
similarity2
fluent-interface2
reflection2
oop2
material-design1
spec1
fluent-api1
bdd1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JoseLlarena/spanish-climate-data
Aug 2014 - Mar 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 6 months
JoseLlarena/pypey
Mar 2021 - Dec 2024
lazy data pipes for python
Contributions:8 PRs, 8 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 10 months
pythondatapipes
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