Meero - Cloud Engineer

Real Estate | Fashion | Cars October 2022 - Now

• Architecture proposals and implementation for several systems in the company (client facing)
• Putting in place checks and documentation for Security best practices on different modules in the company
• Designed architecture for Serving ML Models with AWS. Sagemaker Hosted and Serverless
• Manage On premises Datacenter: Ansible
• Ops Support for R&D team and On premises Datacenter: containerization (docker)
• Designed and deployed solution for monitoring On premises Datacenter: Prometheus, Grafana
• Developed Terraform modules (IaC) for company's infractructure
• Reviewed and proposed MLOps best practices in the company

Meero - R&D Team Leader

Real Estate | Fashion | Cars July 2020 - October 2022

• Manage integration team ( ~6 people): follow ups on projects, design of career path within the team, definition of short and mid term roadmaps.
• Leading team members in different technical subjects: dockerization, code robustness check, AWS services integration, systems architecture design, etc.
• Bridge between R&D and IT teams for communication, integration, etc.
• Leading projects for computer vision and image processing
• Responsible for designing and execution of workflow to deploy in production all the internal projects from R&D team

View Factor - Technical Founder

Traffic Control November 2018 - July 2020

• Designed the system architecture for insite vehicles and pedestrian detection and classification using deep learning models on embedded systems to control traffic lights on road intersections.
• Data preparation and fine tuning the detection model
• Designed and developed modules for production environment; Components for:
  1. Internal system communication.
  2. Vehicles detection and tracking: Using C++ with OpenCV, Tensorflow, TensorRT for GPU optimization, etc.
  3. Traffic light orchestrator: Using Python
  4. Dashboard and Analytics: Using Python (Flask) and JavaScript
  5. Administration panel: Using Python (Flask) and JavaScript
• Designed and developed an Average Speed Control system on highways using automatic licence plate recognition:
  1. Automatic Licence Plate Recognition component
  2. System synchronisation among all remote nodes
  3. Dashboard and Analytics: Using Python (Flask) and JavaScript
• Designed and developed a High Human Body Temperature Detection combining Thermal and RGB cameras (standalone application):
  1. UI and UX using C++ and Qt
  2. Face detection and recognition for temperature history for a person
  3. Thermal and RGB camera synchronisation and alignment

Fitle - Lead R&D Engineer

Fashion October 2014 - July 2018

• Led computer vision R&D, managing 1 engineer and 1 intern. Planning and coordinating roadmap for short/medium/long term R&D projects in the computer vision team.
• Integrated a Deep Learning method for segmentation using Caffe framework which improved segmentation accuracy up to 95+ %
• Designed and developed a tool for interactively deforming the pose of registered 3D bodies.
• Proposed and developed approaches combining Super-pixels Segmentation, background subtraction, pose estimation.
• Proposed and developed approaches for 3D reconstruction, internal tools and mobile applications with a user experience and optimisation focus.
• Integrated a Bundle Adjustment library for camera calibration and 3D reconstruction into initial prototype.

ImViA - Research Intern

Research Lab February 2014 - July 2014

• Literature review on Video sequences patterns analysis from surveillance cameras
• Proposed solution using Hierarchical Clustering and Motion Features for Semantic Segmentation.
• Published extended abstract in the Scene Understanding Workshop in CVPR2014 conference

Technologies used include: C++, Python, Matlab, Bash, Latex

TMH International Group - Software Engineer

Insurance September 2011 - July 2012

• Designed the database for the new version of an Electronic Medical Record System, optimizing relational design, fields indexing, etc. Improving results timing from 30+ seconds to a few milliseconds.
• Designed the new modules organization leading to a better software architecture design and implementation avoiding redundancy in base code.

Universidad del Zulia - Research Assistant

Research Lab May 2010 - September 2011

• Taught introduction to informatics and computer science basics to first semester students.
• Assisted in the creation of a new University Unit in charge of Knowledge transfer, innovation and entrepreneurship within the University by defining the positions and roles for each of the future members and designing the System architecture for the unit.

CIDTEC - Software Engineer

Research Lab June 2009 - December 2009

• Designed and developed a Content Management System for specifics requirements using PHP with OOP paradigm as well as an Editorial Management Software which allowed the Research center to manage the publication of its scientific journal.

CorpoElec - Software Engineer Intern

Electricity Supplier April 2009 - June 2009

• Developed a CRUD module to manage internal Oracle database using PHP + JavaScript
• Ported online system written in ASP.Net to PHP + JavaScript