📍 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.

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 across 23 countries and 120,000+ monthly couriers. 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

• Data Engineering: Built ETL systems to prepare and integrate data for Atomian's cognitive architecture, enabling the Medical Records product to extract structured information from unstructured patient reports.
• Document Processing: Developed pipelines to read and process legal/property documents (notas simples) and medical records using Atomian's NLP platform.
• Analytics & Prediction: Performed analytics and built prediction models on extracted healthcare data, ensuring accuracy and reliability in clinical contexts.

Skills: C++, 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.
• Performance & Diagnostics: Worked in the P&D department performing statistical error analyses of wind turbines and developing KPI/performance dashboards. Led the technical implementation of a 3-month test to statistically validate wind and turbine production forecasts from weather companies (database design, statistical comparisons including t-tests).
• SAP Migration: Supported the migration of legacy ERP systems to SAP enterprise platform.

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

Master's Thesis Researcher

IIIA-CSIC (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute) · Jan 2007 - Dec 2007 · 1 yr

Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area

• Bio-inspired Navigation: Investigated navigation methods based on ant navigation models, developing the Average Landmark Vector (ALV) approach for autonomous robot localization.
• Computer Vision: Extracted invariant features (Difference of Gaussian, MSER) from panoramic camera images as artificial landmarks for robot navigation.
• Validation: Conducted successful experiments in both simulation and real-world environments with wheeled robots.

Skills: Matlab, Computer Vision, Robot Navigation, Feature Extraction, SLAM

Master's thesis research for University of Groningen MSc in Artificial Intelligence
Thesis: Solving Ambiguity in Global Localization (PDF)

Software Engineering Intern

Vestas Eólica SAU (Wind Energy) · Jan 2007 - Jul 2007 · 7 mos

Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area

• Document Digitalization: Built system to digitalize official company documents, reducing paper usage and increasing operational efficiency.
• Database Integration: Created automated entrance card generation system using personnel database.
• Cost Optimization: Designed phone cost analysis tool to benchmark telecommunications providers and reduce expenses.
• KPI Dashboards: Developed tools to analyze and present service department Key Performance Indicators.

Skills: Database Systems, Excel VBA, Process Automation, Data Analysis

Software Engineer

DevSquad · May 2004 - Dec 2006 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Netherlands · Part-time (weekends/summer)

• System Integration: Developed integration components between two laboratory software systems - Laboras (behavioral analysis) and DataSciences (sensor data).
• Reporting Module: Developed circling behavior reporting functionality for laboratory animal research applications.
• GLP Compliance: Implemented digital signature module for file authentication to meet Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) regulatory requirements.

Skills: Visual Basic, C#, Software Integration, Laboratory Information Systems

Part-time work while completing BSc in Computing Science at University of Groningen

Software Engineer - Industrial Placement

Thales Nederland BV (Defense & Security) · Jan 2003 - Jul 2003 · 7 mos

Hengelo, Netherlands

• Platform Migration: Ported the Man Machine Interface (MMI) of the IRScan infrared targeting system for the Goalkeeper maritime anti-missile defense system.
• Cross-Platform Development: Successfully migrated software from Sun Sparc to PC Linux platform, ensuring functionality and performance parity.
• Defense Systems: Worked on critical defense infrastructure requiring high reliability and real-time performance.

Skills: C, Linux, Sun Solaris, GUI Development, Platform Porting

Industrial placement for HBO Bachelor in ICT at Hanzehogeschool Groningen
Project Report: IRScan MMI Platform Porting (PDF)

Junior Software Engineer - Orientation Internship

University of Groningen - Faculty of Law, Legal Informatics Section · Apr 2001 - Jul 2002 · 1 yr 4 mos

Groningen, Netherlands

• Database Tools: Built FactEditor and RelationEditor in Java to manage multi-database systems (Sybase), enabling legal experts to maintain facts, rules, and relations for the expert system.
• Client/Server Architecture: Designed and implemented RMI server for "the LawGame", a collaborative client/server application allowing students to interact with the legal expert system via a central server.
• Logic Engine: Implemented non-monotonic logic operators (dagger, sheffer stroke, logarithm) to handle unknown values in legal reasoning, enabling the system to draw conclusions from incomplete information.
• System Migration: Contributed to rewriting the expert system from C++/Delphi to Java, improving maintainability and platform independence.

Skills: Java, RMI, JDBC, Non-monotonic Logic, Expert Systems, Database Design, Client/Server Architecture, Legal Informatics, Sybase

Orientation internship for HBO Bachelor in ICT at Hanzehogeschool Groningen
Internship Report: Expert System for Legal Informatics (PDF, in Dutch)

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
Thesis PDF | Thesis Page

Master of Science (MS) - Artificial Intelligence

University of Groningen · 2005 - 2008

Thesis: Solving Ambiguity in Global Localization
Thesis PDF

Bachelor of Science (BS) - Computing Science

University of Groningen · 2003 - 2006

Thesis: SLAM using Growing Neural Gas
Thesis PDF

Bachelor of ICT - Information and Communication Technology

Hanzehogeschool Groningen (University of Applied Sciences) · 1999 - 2003

Graduation Project: IRScan MMI Platform Porting (PDF)