Summary
Rodrigo Abt is a Staff Data Scientist and data leader based in Santiago with 10 years of experience building analytics, data platforms, and cross-functional teams across tech, retail, finance and education. He has led impactful initiatives at Mercado Libre, axity and multiple startups—designing data mesh architectures, defining DORA/DevOps metrics, and creating C‑level analytics products that improved decision-making. As Head of Data & Analytics at Projection and former CTO at Sweepi, he blends strategic product thinking with hands‑on engineering, from ETLs and model deployment to cloud DataOps. He also teaches executive analytics at Universidad de Chile and mentors career development, bringing a practical educator’s lens to complex projects. Notably, Rodrigo has a track record of rapid delivery—replacing legacy reporting with modern stacks in weeks—and has experience collecting commit histories across tens of thousands of repositories to inform platform-level insights.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Civil Industrial Engineering, Engineering/Industrial Management, Bachelor, Civil Industrial Engineering, Engineering/Industrial Management, Bachelor at Universidad de Chile
English, German, Spanish