Nicolás Della Penna
CEO at GroupLang
Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
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Top SchoolNicolás Della Penna is a machine learning and economics leader with 15 years of experience designing large-scale log processing, personalised recommendation engines, influence measures for social networks, NLP systems, and behavioural paywalls. As CEO of GroupLang and former director of Amurado Research, he consults across industries, translating academic rigor—shaped by a PhD in Machine Learning from ANU and a research affiliation at MIT—into deployable products for startups and corporations like Twitter and UBM. He blends quantitative causal inference work for healthcare with commercial ML productization, a mix that lets him bridge research and production in high-stakes settings. Based in Montevideo, he’s known for applying economic thinking to user behavior, turning instrumentation and influence metrics into measurable business levers.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityB.A. (hons), Economics, B.A. (hons), Economics at The University of British Columbia
Spanish, Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (36)
cpp10
active-learning10
reinforcement-learning9
python9
machine-learning9
scientific-computing8
macros8
numpy8
vowpal-wabbit7
metaprogramming7
genomics7
sequencing6
lisp5
compiler5
hy5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nikete/nikete.github.io
Dec 2015 - Mar 2026
My personal website
Contributions:141 pushes in 10 years 4 months
reactnextjs
nikete/Bandits-with-Noncompliance
Dec 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:172 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 5 months
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