Summary
Yecely Díaz is a Google Developer Expert and data scientist with a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and 13 years of experience turning research-grade ML into production-ready data platforms and products. She has led engineering and data teams across startups and scale-ups—shaping architecture, ETL pipelines, and experimentation frameworks at companies like Rappi, REWORTH and Baubap—while recently serving as a Senior Technical Program Manager at Zillow. Skilled in Python, SQL, Airflow and cloud ML, she combines hands-on implementation with stakeholder-facing leadership, mentoring teams and aligning data initiatives to business impact. Active in the Spanish-speaking developer community as a Devz board member, she bridges academic rigor and practical delivery and is comfortable navigating cross-border opportunities (TN-visa eligible). A disciplined, coachable communicator, she often surfaces actionable insights from sparse data and focuses on measurable product outcomes rather than models for their own sake.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Artificial Intelligence, Ph.D., Artificial Intelligence at Universidad Veracruzana
English, Spanish