Summary
Nicolas Arias is an AI Engineer with eight years of software engineering experience, combining academic grounding from Universidad Nacional de Colombia with hands-on roles across research and industry. Currently at Huawei's Lianqiu Lake R&D center, he brings practical AI expertise informed by recent product-facing work at Mercado Libre and prior system engineering at EPAM. He also manages and instructs ICPC teams at UNAL, reflecting a strong competitive programming mindset that sharpens algorithmic problem solving and mentoring skills. Based in Bogotá, he blends research-oriented thinking with production delivery, often applying data-science approaches to real-world engineering challenges. An active competitive programmer, he leverages that discipline to optimize models and code for performance under constraints.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Universidad Nacional de Colombia
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Instituto Pedagógico Nacional