Roberto Barroso-luque
Head Of Applied AI at Fireworks AI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRoberto Barroso-luque is Head of Applied AI with eight years of experience designing and shipping production ML systems that drive measurable business impact, from GenAI enterprise builds to B2B sales optimization. He blends a multidisciplinary academic background in neuroscience, economics and public policy with hands-on expertise in NLP, recommendation systems, and large-scale data engineering across AWS, GCP and Azure. At BCG X he led GenAI and propensity-model projects estimated to unlock tens of millions in annual value, and at Omelas built high-precision NLP pipelines and multilingual translation APIs deployed in production. Known for moving research into reliable services, he pairs deep modeling (PyTorch, HuggingFace, LightGBM) with pragmatic engineering (Airflow, DuckDB, Postgres) to operationalize solutions. Based in San Francisco and a UChicago CAPP alum, he brings a product-minded approach to AI transformation and a track record of turning complex, terabyte-scale data into actionable commercial recommendations.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science and Public Policy, Master of Science - MS Computer Science and Public Policy at University of ChicagoBachelor's degree Economics, Bachelor's degree Economics at Boston University
Spanish, English, French
Github Skills (2)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
RobertoBarrosoLuque/GenderProject
Apr 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:49 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
RobertoBarrosoLuque/Presidential-Rhetoric-NLP
Feb 2021 - Jan 2022
Computational Content Analysis Final Project.
Contributions:12 PRs, 31 pushes, 11 branches in 11 months
nlppythoncontent-analysistopic-modelingnatural-language-processing
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