Summary
Luccas Rojas is a Senior Data Scientist based in Bogotá with six years of experience building production-grade AI and NLP systems that drive measurable business impact. At Mercado Libre he led an 8-engineer team and pioneered an in-house QLoRA fine-tuned LLM serving personalized experiences across 80M+ users, and previously built a financial assistant used by 10M+ customers. He blends academic rigor—mentoring graduate NLP projects and steering research in social robotics—with hands-on engineering in Vertex AI, PyTorch, and cloud deployments. Known for bridging product, research, and cross-functional teams, he shapes AI strategy through partnerships with OpenAI and AWS while keeping cost and scalability front of mind. A former educator and open-source organizer, he brings rare experience translating classroom mentorship into large-scale, user-focused AI products.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science, 4.37, Computer Science, Computer Science, 4.37 at Universidad de los Andes - Colombia