Juan Laria
Engineer IV - Data Science
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolJuan Laria is an Engineer IV in Data Science based in Barcelona with nine years of experience applying statistical rigor to production ML systems. He holds a PhD in Statistics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and has a strong track record building fast R packages in C++ (RcppArmadillo), developing variable selection algorithms for high-dimensional problems, and deploying models with TensorFlow and PySpark. At TomTom he progressed from Senior Data Scientist to Engineer IV, contributing to scalable, containerized (Docker, Kubernetes) ML workflows. Comfortable across Python, R and C++, he blends research-grade methods with hands-on engineering—he even built a standalone Spark cluster during his PhD. Known for bridging cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) and on-prem tooling, he focuses on reliable model delivery at scale.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Charles III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)Licentiate degree Mathematics, Licentiate degree Mathematics at University of Havana
Github Skills (1)
r-package7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jlaria/s2net
Nov 2019 - Jun 2022
The generalized semi-supervised elastic-net
Contributions:1 release, 40 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 7 months
jlaria/glasp-code
May 2020 - Sep 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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