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Sebastian Palacio

ML Engineer

Sebastian Palacio
Madrid, Spain

Experience

Oct 2019 - Present
6 years 4 months
Norway

ML Engineer

Aller Media AS

  • Designed and deployed NLP/LLM-driven content recommendation algorithms for multilingual Nordic news brands.
  • Built and maintained end-to-end ML pipelines (Kubeflow, TFX, Vertex AI).
  • Migrated custom ETL workflows to Airflow / Composer.
  • Implemented CI/CD for ML models, automated testing, and monitoring of pipelines.
  • Collaborated with data engineering teams to enhance the Nordic data platform architecture.
  • Worked closely with integrating ML systems and endpoint APIs in the backend.
  • Conducted experimentation and A/B testing using traffic and behavioral data.
  • Tech stack: GCP (BigQuery, Vertex AI, Pub/Sub, Artifact Registry, Composer (Airflow), GCS, BigTable), Python, SQL, TensorFlow, HuggingFace, NLP, LLMs, Kubeflow, TFX, Docker, Spark
Jan 2017 - Aug 2019
2 years 8 months
Spain

Data Scientist

Zurich Insurance Ltd

  • Designed and implemented the insurance fraud detection algorithm, recipient of the Zurich Global Innovation Award.
  • Developed ETL processes and automated scoring pipelines in Python and SQL.
  • Built predictive models across claims, customer behavior, and operational data.
  • Presented findings to senior leadership and collaborated with actuaries, underwriting, and claims teams.
  • Published work in the Data Science Journal on fraud analytics methodology.
  • Tech stack: Python, TensorFlow, SQL, Machine Learning, Fraud Analytics, Power BI
Oct 2013 - Jun 2016
2 years 9 months
Argentina

Data Analyst

Ministry of Transport

  • Big data analysis and database design (SQL Server and Python).
  • Econometric evaluation of transport projects.
  • Collected and analyzed data to create reports for the national Ministry of Transport.
Mar 2013 - Sep 2013
7 months
Argentina

Data Analyst

Centrales de la Costa Atlantica

  • Statistics and econometric analysis of the fuel usage in thermic generation central.
  • Collected data and created reports using STATA.
  • Worked with visualization tools to present data to the business.

Summary

10+ years of experience designing, deploying, and scaling machine-learning solutions —specialized in LLMs, recommendation systems, and full ML lifecycle automation.

Strong background in statistics (PhD), cloud pipelines (GCP, Kubeflow, Airflow) and software programming (Python, Tensorflow, SQL, GCP, Spark, unit/integration testing)

Skills

  • Programming: Python, Sql, Git, Bash
  • Ml & Ai: Tensorflow, Huggingface, Nlp, Tfx
  • Data & Cloud: Gcp, Bigquery, Spark, Airflow, Kubeflow, Vertexai
  • Devops: Docker, Ci/cd
  • Analytics: Statistics, Ml, A/b Testing, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Powerbi, Looker

Languages

Spanish
Native
English
Advanced
Norwegian
Intermediate

Education

University of Barcelona

PhD, Statistics · Statistics · Barcelona, Spain

University of Barcelona

MSc, Competition & Regulation · Competition & Regulation · Barcelona, Spain

National University of La Plata

MSc, Economics · Economics · La Plata, Argentina

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