Summary
Vicente Muñoz is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience building search, recommendation, and large-scale ML systems, currently leading Search & Personalization at Rappi. He architects end-to-end pipelines and MLOps that serve millions of predictions per hour, has driven measurable business impact (+65k monthly orders, uplifts in CTR/CVR), and implements transformer-based retrieval and ranking models in production. With an MSc focused on deep learning for music information retrieval, he blends research-grade representation learning and practical engineering—having built open-source audio classification tools and worked on singer identification from raw waveforms. Vicente has led ML initiatives across startups and product teams, acted as a tech lead shaping R&D-to-production workflows, and frequently contributes to technical communities like GitHub and Stack Overflow. Based in Santiago, he uniquely combines multimedia ML research experience with hands-on production engineering across LatAm retail, restaurants, and CPG domains.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Universidad de Chile
Parvularía, Básica y Média, Parvularía, Básica y Média at Colegio SS.CC. Manquehue
English, Spanish