Rafael López is a Co-founder and Principal AI Engineer with nine years of experience turning mathematical rigor into production-ready AI systems, now leading LLM and classical ML initiatives at codin.es. He has delivered 15+ end-to-end AI projects as a freelance consultant and previously applied risk and data analytics at Banco Santander, combining enterprise discipline with startup agility. Rafael specializes in advanced RAG, prompt engineering, evaluation and guardrails for conversational assistants, and manages model lifecycles with MLflow and Weights & Biases. Comfortable across the stack, he ships APIs with FastAPI and Docker and visualizes impact using Power BI and Streamlit while collaborating on cloud infrastructure. A mathematician by training with top academic honors and peer-reviewed publications, he blends strong theoretical foundations with a practical focus on measurable business impact.
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