Nicolas Schmidt
Head Of Tech Chile at Fintual
Barcelona, Catalonia, Chile
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Schmidt is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years building resilient, cost-efficient backend systems for high-impact consumer platforms, currently based in Barcelona and working at Fintual. He has led large-scale migrations, infrastructure optimizations that cut cloud costs by nearly 60%, and engineered high-throughput services at Glovo handling hundreds of millions of images and real-time partner integrations. Skilled in API design, event-driven architectures, and AI model integrations, he has delivered practical ML-powered features like automated restaurant categorization and dietary label prediction. His background spans startup CTO experience—driving a successful acquisition and architecting microservices-based products—to academic training in sound and music computing, an uncommon blend that informs his systems thinking and attention to signal-quality in data-driven features.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Information Technology, Engineer's degree, Information Technology at Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileMaster's degree, Sound and Music Computing, Master's degree, Sound and Music Computing at Universitat Pompeu Fabra - BarcelonaDiplomatura, Leading Digital Transformation, Diplomatura, Leading Digital Transformation at MIT Professional EducationDiplomado en Técnicas de Producción Musical y Sonido, Diplomado en Técnicas de Producción Musical y Sonido at 101 Training
Spanish, English
Github Skills (25)
podcast10
speech10
deep-learning9
source-separation9
music8
audio8
segmentation7
music-information-retrieval7
machine-learning6
multi-object-tracking5
javascript4
tensorrt4
webpack4
sms4
python4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
MTG/Podcastmix
Oct 2021 - Aug 2024
PodcastMix A dataset for separating music and speech in podcasts.
Contributions:2 PRs, 29 pushes in 2 years 10 months
speechmusicaudiodeep-learningmachine-learning
nschmidtg/Podcastmix
Jan 2021 - Nov 2022
PodcastMix A dataset for separating music and speech in podcasts. Code of my Master Thesis in the Sound and Music Computing Master Program Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Contributions:695 commits, 55 PRs, 304 pushes in 1 year 10 months
speechdeep-learningpodcastpodcastssourceseparation
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