José López
Senior Software Engineer at Topsort
Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
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Top SchoolJosé López is a Senior Software Engineer and machine learning leader with 11 years of experience building production-grade ML systems, specializing in MLOps, NLP and language models. He has led ML engineering teams at Walmart Chile, architected LLM and computer vision pipelines on GCP/Vertex AI, and scaled CI/CD/CT workflows with Kubeflow to deliver measurable business impact. Earlier he co-created BETO and ALBETO—widely adopted Spanish BERT models—with BETO cited in over 1,000 papers, reflecting a rare blend of research influence and production focus. His background includes MedNeurIPS publications on multimodal medical imaging and a top-ranked MSc and undergraduate degree from Universidad de Chile. Known for combining deep technical ownership with mentorship and cross-functional collaboration, he also has hands-on experience deploying high-throughput NLP microservices processing 300K+ messages/day. Currently based in Santiago, he’s transitioning into senior engineering roles that emphasize robust, efficient ML at scale.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 7/7 - Class Rank: 1/9, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 7/7 - Class Rank: 1/9 at Universidad de Chile
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (91)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
flax10
resolver10
deep-learning10
spanish10
transformer10
nlp10
jax10
french10
finance10
seq2seq10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
josecannete/spanish-corpora
May 2019 - Apr 2022
Unannotated Spanish 3 Billion Words Corpora
Contributions:2 releases, 12 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 11 months
nlpcorporacorpusspanish-languagewords
dccuchile/lightweight-spanish-language-models
Jan 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:32 commits, 1 push in 1 year
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