Juan Herrera is a data scientist and former finance leader with over two decades of cross-functional experience and 12 years focused on applied analytics, AI, and deep learning. He partners with product and engineering teams to design end-to-end data pipelines and production-grade models, translating complex math and ML into business-impacting solutions across industries like telecom, retail, and FMCG. As a consultant at ECONS Group and prior roles at Liberty Cablevision and Bouquet.ai, he has driven NLP-driven customer experience programs, churn reduction, and rapid POC deployments that cut bot implementation time from a week to a day. His background in finance and corporate strategy (PwC, Microsoft, Zurich) gives him uncommon fluency in financial modeling, change management, and stakeholder influence, enabling data initiatives to move from prototype to scalable operations. He also contributes backend improvements to open-source projects such as GeoNetwork, reflecting a pragmatic engineering approach to data platforms.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA) General management process improvement, Master of Business Administration (MBA) General management process improvement at IESA
Certificate for team facilitation Organizational Leadership, Certificate for team facilitation Organizational Leadership at PCOS International
Master of Business Analytics Business Analytics, Master of Business Analytics Business Analytics at Hult International Business School
Bachelor’s Degree Finance & Accounting, Bachelor’s Degree Finance & Accounting at Universidad 'Santa María'
GeoNetwork is a catalog application to manage spatially referenced resources. It provides powerful metadata editing and search functions as well as an interactive web map viewer. It is currently used in numerous Spatial Data Infrastructure initiatives across the world.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:8 releases, 229 reviews, 184 commits in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Juan primarily focused on back-end improvements and configurations within the GeoNetwork project. They implemented changes to externalize and configure properties for proxy servlets, improving the system's flexibility. The user also addressed file management within the attachment system by re-adding existing files during re-harvesting and improved temporary file handling. They demonstrate a strong understanding of the project's core functionalities and configuration processes.
Contributions:1 push, 7 branches in 5 years 3 months
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