Nicolás Della Penna
CEO at GroupLang
Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
Summary
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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.
15 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
Github Skills (62)
frontier9
reinforcement-learning9
macros9
dialect9
python9
interpolation9
active-learning9
cpp9
convolution9
numba8
finite-element-analysis8
lisp-interpreter8
scientific-computing8
numerics8
root-finding8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nikete/nikete.github.io
Dec 2015 - Apr 2024
My personal website
Contributions:138 pushes in 8 years 5 months
reactnextjs
nikete/Bandits-with-Noncompliance
Dec 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:172 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 5 months
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