Roberto Valdez
Google Cloud AI ML Engineer
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoberto Valdez is a Google Cloud AI/ML Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable machine learning and distributed systems, specializing in on-device and edge ML for voice and speech applications. Previously an Applied Scientist at Amazon, he shipped edge‑optimized speech recognition and LLM audio synthesis work for Alexa and engineered large Spark ETL pipelines and multi‑GPU training workflows. He combines rigorous academic training—dual master’s degrees from Columbia and a Fulbright background—with hands‑on product experience delivering NLP personalization at scale and actuarial ML solutions that grew revenue. Bilingual in Spanish and English, Roberto brings a cross-disciplinary perspective that spans research, production ML, and frontend integration, and has a track record of publishing and improving SOTA speech verification in low-annotation settings.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Intensive Introduction to Graduate Study Computer Science, Intensive Introduction to Graduate Study Computer Science at New York UniversityMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Columbia UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics Finance and Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics Finance and Mathematics at Universidad San Francisco de Quito
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (12)
api4
python4
messenger2
calculation2
cer1
speech-recognition1
pypi1
speech-processing1
natural-language-processing1
levenshtein1
jaro-winkler1
levenshtein-distance1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rvaldez1986/ai_chatbot
Jun 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:146 commits, 109 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
rvaldez1986/R-mlText
Feb 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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