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.