Valeria Diez
Lead Data Scientist, Financial Crime
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolValeria Diez is a Lead Data Scientist specializing in financial crime prevention with eight years’ experience applying ML and analytics at scale in banking. At Monzo she has built advanced data pipelines and detection models for 10M+ retail and 500k business customers, and now leads generative AI proof-of-concepts to accelerate investigations and compliance. Her background spans decision science for lending, fairness auditing, and product-facing analytics, giving her a rare blend of model rigour, regulatory savvy, and product intuition. She has a strong academic foundation from Imperial College, CDTM and TUM, and an early career track record of translating research into operational systems—from call-centre forecasting to KPI dashboards for executives. Notably, she combines hands-on engineering with stakeholder-facing leadership, driving measurable improvements in AML effectiveness and operational readiness.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Business Analytics Business Analytics, MSc Business Analytics Business Analytics at Imperial College LondonBachelor of Science (BSc) Business Informatics, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Business Informatics at Technical University of MunichHonours Degree Technology Management, Honours Degree Technology Management at Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM)
Spanish, English, German, Italian, Portuguese
Github Skills (32)
causal-inference9
causal9
modeling8
machine-learning7
machine-learning-algorithms7
fairness-ml7
deep-learning6
inference5
knock5
gradient-boosting4
python4
nlp4
natural-language-processing3
pyenv3
computer-vision3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
valeria-io/bias-in-credit-models
Apr 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:98 commits, 6 pushes in 1 month
valeria-io/bokeh-dataviz-catalogue
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:51 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
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