Josep Valls
Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Adobe
California, United States
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Top SchoolJosep Valls is a Lead Machine Learning Engineer based in California with 11 years of experience building NLP and deep learning systems in production at Amazon and Adobe. He blends a strong research background—a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Drexel—with hands-on applied science work on Alexa and search/NLP products, driving models from prototype to scalable deployment. As a former founder and technical manager, he pairs product-minded engineering with team leadership and experience managing multi-disciplinary teams and contractors. Known for specializing in language understanding, he focuses on practical, production-ready solutions that bridge research advances and user-facing features.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Artificial Intelligence at Drexel UniversityM.S. Artificial Intelligence, M.S. Artificial Intelligence at Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaUniversity of California Santa Cruz
English, Spanish, Catalan
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Github Skills (46)
open-source10
game-development10
game-engine9
python9
htaccess9
mod-rewrite9
nlp9
godot8
aws-sdk7
nltk7
gdscript6
php6
sql6
sdk6
aws6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
josepvalls/ask.py
Sep 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:24 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
pythonamazonalexaawsamazon-alexa
josepvalls/voz2b
Feb 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:99 commits, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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