Sergio Blanco
Machine Learning Engineer at Hugging Face
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolSergio Blanco is a Machine Learning Engineer with nine years of experience blending academic research and hands-on engineering, currently at Hugging Face and based in Madrid. He completed a PhD in AI focused on end-to-end vision-based autonomous driving and has a strong track record teaching and developing courses on computer vision and deep learning for diverse audiences. Sergio contributes to open-source education at Hugging Face—integrating libraries like smolagents into the widely used agents-course—and has long-standing involvement mentoring and leading community projects through Google Summer of Code. His background spans research roles, product-facing consulting on state-of-the-art vision models (SAM, YOLOv8), and full-stack development, giving him a rare mix of theoretical depth and practical shipping experience. Colleagues describe him as a proactive mentor and educator who translates complex ML ideas into digestible coursework and reproducible code.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MSc in Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, MSc in Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence at Universidad Politécnica de MadridDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Cum Laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Cum Laude at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (12)
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agent10
python10
machine-learning9
langchain8
arraylist6
html6
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javascript6
android6
autocompletetextview6
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
huggingface/agents-course
Feb 2025 - Apr 2025
This repository contains the Hugging Face Agents Course.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:36 reviews, 19 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sergio primarily focused on integrating the `smolagents` library within the project. Their contributions involved uploading and merging updates to the `agents.ipynb` notebook, likely to integrate the `smolagents` library and its functionalities. Furthermore, the user appears to have been involved in merging branches, suggesting a role in coordinating the project's codebase. This indicates the user was involved in updating the course material with the `smolagents` framework.
agentic-aiagentshuggingfacelangchainllamaindex
JdeRobot/BehaviorMetrics
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
Autonomous driving neural network comparison tool
Contributions:5 releases, 31 reviews, 783 commits in 2 years 11 months
pytorchautonomousdeep-learningreinforcement-learningcomparison
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