Summary
Liev Garcia is a Lead Data Scientist with 13 years’ experience building and operationalising ML and analytics solutions across fintech, HR-tech and enterprise telecoms. He combines strong hands-on skills—productionising transformer-based NLP, recommendation APIs and data pipelines with tools like Prefect, Airflow, MLflow and cloud storage—with proven people leadership and mentoring of cross-functional teams. Liev has a track record of translating product questions into measurable ML impact, from candidate matching and skills extraction to document entity extraction and real-time pricing APIs. Comfortable working with stakeholders up to the C-suite, he prioritises team communication and sustainable delivery over heroics. His academic background in mathematics and an MSc in Big Data Science underpin a practical curiosity evidenced by projects ranging from GANs and image super-resolution to large-scale Spark and Hadoop experiments.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Mathematics, Master of Science (MSc), Mathematics at Belarusian State University
Master of Science - MS, Data Science, Distinction, Master of Science - MS, Data Science, Distinction at Queen Mary University of London
Hebrew, Russian, Spanish, English