Career

Experience

From Systems Engineering at Universidad del Norte to Data Science at AB InBev — focused on enterprise ML systems that support strategic decisions.

Sep 2025 — Present

Bogotá, Colombia · On-site

Mid-level Data Scientist

AB InBev

·Full-time
  • Led the continuous improvement and adoption of the investment optimization model across markets, incorporating new data sources, refining predictive logic, and enhancing model interpretability for business stakeholders.
  • Developed new features and data pipelines to support model scalability and regional rollout, improving accuracy, reducing latency, and enabling deployment in additional LATAM markets.

Feb 2025 — Sep 2025

Bogotá, Colombia · Hybrid

Data Scientist

AB InBev

·Contract
  • Localized and deployed a U.S.-developed investment optimization model for the Colombian market, adapting data sources, business rules, and predictive features to regional dynamics — improving budget allocation efficiency and marketing ROI across key commercial channels.
  • Fine-tuned and productionized BERT-based NLP models for automated sales order classification, increasing accuracy, reducing manual processing time, and enabling categorization of over 200,000 historical purchase orders.
  • Partnered with cross-functional and global teams (Colombia, U.S., India) to validate results and align model outputs with business objectives.

Aug 2024 — Jan 2025

Bogotá, Colombia · On-site

Data Science Intern

AB InBev

·Internship
  • Supported the Mexico operation of Smart Discounts, a promotion optimization framework, as part of a regional rollout across multiple LATAM markets (Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador). Contributed to data integration, feature validation, and local adaptation.
  • Designed and implemented an AI-driven ranking algorithm to prioritize promotional offers by customer purchase propensity, enhancing targeting accuracy and campaign effectiveness in the Mexican market.
  • Developed and maintained data pipelines in Python and SQL, ensuring reliable data flow, scalability, and performance across the modeling workflow.

Jan 2024 — Aug 2024

Colombia · Remote

AI Engineer

Outlier

·Part-time
  • Evaluated and refined AI-generated code, ensuring consistency, functionality, and compliance with best practices — contributing to a 30% reduction in critical errors.
  • Assessed advanced model capabilities including reasoning, RAG workflows, code generation behaviors, and compliance with quality and security standards.
  • Identified behavioral issues and improvement opportunities to increase overall model reliability and output quality.

2020 — 2024

Barranquilla, Colombia

Systems & Computing Engineering

Universidad del Norte

·Education
  • Graduated with a 4.6/5.0 GPA in Systems and Computing Engineering, with focus areas in machine learning, statistics, and data science.
  • Completed coursework spanning algorithms, distributed systems, databases, and applied mathematics — building the engineering foundation for production ML systems.