Juan Meléndez
Lead Engineer at NTT DATA Europe & Latam
Popayán, Cauca, Colombia
Summary
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Top SchoolJuan Meléndez is a Lead Machine Learning Engineer with 8 years of experience combining deep academic training (MSc and PhD in Telematics Engineering) with industry impact across Latin America and Europe. He has progressed from academic research and teaching in network traffic analysis and incremental learning to production ML roles at Chiper and currently leads Generative AI efforts at NTT DATA Europe & Latam. Comfortable bridging research and engineering, he has international research stints in Budapest and Madrid that informed practical solutions for network personalization and monitoring. Based in Popayán, Colombia, Juan blends hands-on model development and deployment with mentoring and system-level thinking, often translating academic insights into scalable products. An electronics and telecommunications background gives him a unique perspective on ML systems that must operate over constrained or networked environments.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering at Universidad del Cauca
Spanish, English, German
Github Skills (20)
dpi10
packet10
traffic-analysis10
ndpi9
cybersecurity9
network9
dataset-generation8
netflow6
network-monitoring6
network-analysis6
machine-learning5
data-mining5
python5
pcap5
artificial-intelligence5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jsrojas/FlowLabeler
Dec 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:29 commits, 4 pushes, 2 comments in 8 months
jsrojas/option-ml-test
Apr 2023 - Apr 2023
Contributions:5 releases, 25 PRs, 28 pushes in 4 days
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