Joshua Fuentes
Software Engineer at MyLab
Chile
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Fuentes is a Software Engineer and Magíster en Estadística with 13 years of experience building, validating and monitoring predictive models and scorecards across banking, fintech, telecom and retail. He combines hands-on ML/AI engineering—feature engineering, evaluation, automated monitoring and documentation—with clear communication through analysis and visualization to make complex models decision-ready. He has led model teams at Banco Ripley and worked on seller credit modeling at Mercado Libre, delivering both regulatory-grade risk models and production monitoring. An active R front-end contributor, he improved the popular highcharter package with theme fixes, draggable points and responsive chart support, reflecting a pragmatic eye for polished visual delivery. Based in Chile, he blends rigorous statistical training with software craftsmanship to accelerate model cycles and embed analytics into business processes.
13 years of coding experience
Magíster En Estadísticas, Estadística, programación, Magíster En Estadísticas, Estadística, programación at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (12)
javascript10
highcharts10
front-end-development10
r9
html9
css9
rmarkdown6
shiny6
data-visualization6
ggplot6
barchart6
color-palette6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jbkunst/highcharter
Dec 2015 - Nov 2022
R wrapper for highcharts
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 1073 commits, 58 PRs in 7 years
Contributions summary:Joshua's contributions primarily involved making minor fixes to the `hc_theme_chalk` function within the "highcharter" repository, which is an R wrapper for the Highcharts library. These fixes likely related to visual aspects of the charting library, reflecting a focus on refining the theme and ensuring proper presentation of charts. Furthermore, the user added the "draggable points plugin" adding functionality to an HTML widget. Lastly, the user also added support for responsive charts through various changes in the htmlwidgets.js file.
wrapperhighchartsr-packagehtmlwidgetscran
ODES-Chile/agrometR
Apr 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:52 commits, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
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