Ricardo Piedrahita
AI Engineer at LightTable
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Piedrahita is an AI engineer with a decade of experience fusing mechanical engineering rigor, data science, and software engineering to build production ML systems that tackle environmental, health, and financial-inclusion problems. He has co-founded a fintech startup and served as Chief Data Officer, designing price-forecasting and risk models and real-time APIs for carbon finance lending, and now builds AI products at LightTable. His background includes field-facing environmental research and MRV work—leading stove and air-pollution studies across countries—which gives him rare domain insight into deploying robust sensor and data pipelines. Technically comfortable across cloud-native stacks (AWS, Lambda, API Gateway), model development (XGBoost), and full-stack APIs and frontends, he focuses on pragmatic, production-grade solutions that measurably improve decision-making. Colleagues describe him as someone who values kind, capable teams and applies academic rigor from a PhD in mechanical engineering to real-world product and policy challenges.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (12)
android-app5
python4
sdk4
kotlin-android3
kotlin3
android3
science3
data-science2
machine-learning2
react-native1
react1
flutter1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ricpie/sums_analysis
Apr 2018 - Oct 2020
Generic Analysis
Contributions:2 PRs, 54 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
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ricpie/E2E-Data-Analysis
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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