📍 Location: Tiana (Barcelona area), Catalonia, Spain

💼 Work Setup: Remote (currently for Meight, Évora, Portugal)

🗣️ Languages: Dutch (native), English (fluent), Spanish (fluent), Catalan (proficient)

🇪🇺 Citizenship: Dutch / EU citizen

Senior Data Scientist

Meight · Dec 2024 - Present

Évora, Portugal · Remote

• LLM Agents: Designed the company's agent evaluation framework, establishing metrics for faithfulness, tool usage, and cost to validate agent reliability before production.
• Tour Optimization: Developing freight planning algorithms that integrate real-time telematics and EU regulatory compliance (Reg. 561/2006) to optimize driver schedules.
• Data Strategy: Integrating unified fleet data from multiple telematics providers to support downstream optimization features.

Skills: Python, Go, LLM Evaluation (DeepEval), Agent Systems, Route Optimization

Senior Data Scientist

Glovo · Nov 2019 - Nov 2024 · 5 yrs

Barcelona, Spain · Hybrid

• Simulation Leadership: Led the architecture and refactor of the discrete event simulator used to validate matching algorithms. This tool allowed the team to optimize the entire delivery lifecycle, where reducing delivery times by seconds resulted in significant cost savings.
• Route Optimization: Led the VRP implementation for "Live Multibundling," enabling dynamic order batching in real-time.
• Matching Logic: Built the automated optimization pipeline for the matching cost function, enabling rapid parameter tuning for network efficiency.

Skills: Python, Discrete Event Simulation, Discrete Optimization, Vehicle Routing (VRP)

Senior R&D Software Developer

Atomian · Jun 2017 - Nov 2019

Sant Cugat, Spain

• Cognitive Computing (NLP): Developed a healthcare product leveraging Atomian's cognitive architecture to read and extract structured data from unstructured patient reports.
• System Evaluation: Led the testing and evaluation of the architecture's accuracy in data extraction and prediction, ensuring reliability in clinical contexts.

Skills: C++, Python, Information Extraction, Cognitive Architectures, Data Analytics

PhD Researcher

IRI - Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (CSIC-UPC) · Apr 2011 - Jun 2017 · 6 yrs 3 mos

Barcelona, Spain

• Thesis: Searching and Tracking of Humans in Urban Environments by Humanoid Robots.
• Developed algorithms for robots to detect and track people using POMCP, particle filters, and Reinforcement Learning.
• Validated methods through 3km+ of autonomous experiments with humanoid robots in real-world urban settings.

Skills: C++, Python, ROS, POMCP, Particle Filters, Robotics

Software Engineer

Vestas Eólica SAU (Wind Energy) · Jan 2008 - Feb 2011 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Barcelona & Madrid, Spain

• ERP Development: Designed and developed an ERP system to manage, plan, and optimize maintenance operations for wind turbine fleets.
• Statistical Analysis: Conducted error analysis of wind turbine performance and validation of production forecast models.
• SAP Migration: Supported the migration of legacy ERP systems to SAP enterprise platform.

Skills: Java, SQL Server, MS Access, ERP Systems, Statistical Analysis

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Automatic Control, Robotics and Computer Vision

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · 2011 - 2017

Thesis: Searching and Tracking of Humans in Urban Environments by Humanoid Robots

Master of Science (MS) - Artificial Intelligence

University of Groningen · 2005 - 2008

Thesis: Solving Ambiguity in Global Localization

Bachelor of Science (BS) - Computing Science

University of Groningen · 2003 - 2006

Thesis: SLAM using Growing Neural Gas