Summary
Karel Becerra is a Staff Engineer and Architect based in Miami with nearly two decades of experience designing, building, and operating enterprise-grade systems that bridge AI research and production software. He leads AML and RegTech initiatives at ACAMS, architecting scalable risk-assessment pipelines that cut time-to-production by 30% while mentoring cross-functional engineering teams. Equally comfortable in ML research and MLOps, he has built Kubernetes-based ML platforms and optimized GPU infrastructure for healthcare AI projects using PyTorch and TensorFlow. His background includes founding CTO roles and successful exits (Ekuar/Polymita acquired by Red Hat), giving him a rare blend of startup growth, product commercialization, and enterprise delivery experience. Karel combines deep technical fluency across Python, Java, cloud-native tooling, and CI/CD with a math-and-computer-science master’s, and contributes to academic AI work beyond day-to-day engineering. He’s known for turning complex compliance and ML challenges into pragmatic, production-ready solutions that deliver measurable business impact.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas
Spanish, English