Nick Ruiz
Senior Product Manager at Verbit.ai
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Ruiz is a senior product leader with 15 years of experience building speech, ASR and NLP products that improve customer care and accessibility. He has led product strategy and applied research at Interactions and now drives speech and AI initiatives at Verbit.ai, combining hands-on expertise in ASR/NLP with product execution to ship real-time conversation understanding and secure PCI-redaction features. Nick holds a PhD in computer science focused on spoken language translation and has repeatedly translated research into production, from hybrid ASR‑MT systems to active learning pipelines for named-entity detection. Beyond enterprise product work, he co-founded Miles4Migrants, running tech and operations for a volunteer nonprofit that has flown over 40,000 displaced people, reflecting a long-standing commitment to using language tech for social good. Not obvious from the title: he bridges deep research rigor and pragmatic product delivery, making multilingual and low-data speech solutions work in real-world contact centers.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Università di TrentoMaster of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at Free University of Bozen-BolzanoMaster of Arts (MA) Linguistics, Master of Arts (MA) Linguistics at University of GroningenBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Houghton University
English, Italian, Spanish, Dutch
Github Skills (47)
fare8
expressions7
mt7
mmt7
transcript6
translation6
in-progress6
theano5
transcription5
mathematical5
machine-translation4
neural-machine-translation4
spellchecker4
machine-learning4
scraper4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NickRuiz/power-asr
Oct 2015 - May 2019
Contributions:42 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
NickRuiz/wikitrans-pootle
Nov 2010 - Nov 2011
Contributions:20 commits in 1 year
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