Summary
Manuel Catalá is a Principal Data Scientist based in Kongens Lyngby with a decade of experience building and leading data science initiatives across consulting, industry and freelance engagements. Currently at Lundbeck and freelancing through Toptal, he combines deep learning, traditional ML and time-series expertise with cloud-native deployment (AWS/Azure), CI/CD and MLOps tooling to take models from research to production. He has led multi-disciplinary teams at DAMVAD Analytics and Danske Bank, pairing technical delivery with project management, recruitment and mentoring. Trained in telecommunications, machine learning and mathematics from Universidad de Alcalá, Universidad Carlos III and DTU, he brings both academic rigour and hands-on engineering. Notably, he blends research experience in boosting and deep learning with practical production skills like Docker, MLflow and serverless architectures, making him effective at solving complex, real-world analytics problems.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Charles III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Engineering Degree, Telecommunications specialized in IT, Engineering Degree, Telecommunications specialized in IT at Universidad de Alcalá
Master’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
High School, 9, High School, 9 at Wilson's Hospital School
English, Spanish, Catalan, Polish, Danish, French