Adrian Santuario Gen AI Engineer | LLM Agents · AI Governance | AWS · Red Hat ·

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Sr. Artificial Intelligence Researcher

AvatarOS

Aug 2025 - Dec 2025 (5 months)

Leading AI research in neural rendering and real-time human avatar synthesis at a venture-backed startup building the infrastructure for AI-powered virtual avatars. • PRODUCTION ML SYSTEMS Architect and deploy production-grade ML pipelines for real-time avatar synthesis, integrating computer vision, generative AI, and graphics rendering. Design and implement neural network architectures for facial animation, motion synthesis, and behavioral modeling, optimized for latency, visual fidelity, and production reliability at scale. • AGENTIC AI ORCHESTRATION Design and orchestrate multi-agent workflows across build-time and run-time environments, enabling end-to-end animation generation with measurable reduction in human intervention at k

Sr. Gen AI Specialist Solutions Architect

Red Hat

Feb 2025 - Aug 2025 (7 months)

Working at the intersection of open source and Generative AI, helping enterprise clients across Mexico and Latin America adopt scalable, production-ready AI solutions on Red Hat's AI stack. • ENTERPRISE AI ARCHITECTURE Led technical discovery sessions with C-suite and engineering teams at 10+ enterprise accounts, designing LLM-powered solution architectures on OpenShift AI that reduced client time-to-production from 6 weeks to under 2 weeks. • EVALUATION & OBSERVABILITY Built evaluation pipelines to benchmark LLM agent reasoning quality and tool-selection accuracy, identifying repeatable failure patterns and converting them into product feature requests for Red Hat's engineering teams. • ENABLEMENT & ADOPTION Delivered technical

Deep Learning Architect

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Jan 2024 - Jan 2025 (1 year 1 month)

Embedded at AWS's Generative AI Innovation Center, a forward-deployed research and engineering team that partners with enterprise clients to take AI from proof of concept to production. • CONVERSATIONAL AI IN PRODUCTION Led the end-to-end design and deployment of an AI-powered financial companion for Lulo Bank (Colombian FinTech), combining LLMs and real-time data pipelines to deliver personalized financial advice and service recommendations to 100K+ users, increasing monthly active users by 28% within 90 days of launch. • LARGE-SCALE NLP Extracted and modeled knowledge from large-scale natural language datasets to power recommendation and personalization features, improving relevance scores by 40% over the engagement period. • P

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Gen AI Engineer Sr

Amber Studios

May 2023 - Nov 2023 (7 months)

Pioneered an end-to-end AI pipeline for automated 3D content generation on the Unreal for Fortnite (UEFN) platform, one of the first production Text-To-3D systems deployed at game-studio scale. • TEXT-TO-3D PRODUCTION SYSTEM Designed and built a Text-To-3D tool within Unreal Engine integrating LLMs, Stable Diffusion, NeRF, and Gaussian Splatting. The pipeline reduced per-asset creation cost from $43.00 to $1.94 (a 95% reduction) while maintaining output quality standards required for the UEFN platform. • MLOPS INFRASTRUCTURE Deployed the full pipeline using Google Cloud, Kubernetes, and MLflow, enabling scalable, reproducible AI workflows and zero-downtime model updates across production environments. • CROSS-FUNCTIONAL DELIVERY Collabo

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AI/ML Pre-Sales Engineer

bSide Solutions

Nov 2020 - Jun 2022 (1 year 8 months)

Operated at the intersection of enterprise sales and applied AI, designing and delivering AI/ML solutions for clients across Mexico and Latin America in partnership with Microsoft. • ENTERPRISE AI DELIVERY Developed architecture, timelines, and responses to RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs across 20+ enterprise accounts, driving technical decision-making and communicating business value to C-suite and VP-level stakeholders across LatAm markets. • AI/ML PROOF OF CONCEPTS Collaborated with sales teams to build AI/ML PoCs and MVPs on Azure ML, including a production Face Identification System for Mabe (Raspberry Pi edge deployment using Azure Face API and TensorFlow), which improved security process efficiency by 60% and contributed to $1.2M+ in new con

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Sr

TrackStreet

Oct 2018 - Oct 2019 (1 year 1 month)

Built NLP-powered intelligence systems to protect brand integrity and pricing policy compliance at scale. • NLP RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM Leveraged advanced NLP techniques (PyTorch, spaCy, NLTK) to extract behavioral insights from large-scale user data, informing marketing strategy and detecting brand and pricing policy violations across e-commerce channels. • MLOPS & DEPLOYMENT Used Flask to build scalable web services for AI model deployment, making ML insights accessible to non-technical stakeholders in real time. Collaborated remotely with an international team of 5 data scientists, applying MLOps practices to improve workflow efficiency and model reproducibility. • FULL-STACK INTEGRATION AND DATA PIPELINES Utilized TypeScript to establi

Professor

CENTRO diseño | cine | televisión

Aug 2017 - Dec 2020 (3 years 5 months)

Teaching at one of Mexico's leading creative technology institutions, bringing AI, data, and emerging technologies into design and media education. • DATA VISUALIZATION (4 hrs/week) Taught students how to tell effective stories with data, covering visual encoding principles, narrative structure, and the ethics of data representation for creative and journalistic contexts. • METAVERSE & IMMERSIVE TECH (8 hrs/week) Designed and delivered curriculum on AR/VR/NFT creative applications, with student final projects achieving national media coverage. Covered spatial computing, immersive narrative design, and the cultural implications of virtual environments. • CREATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (4 hrs/week) Developed an interdisciplinary AI cours

SNII Researcher - Professor

El Colegio de Mexico

Jul 2017 - Current (9 years 1 month)

SNI Level I Researcher at one of Latin America's most selective research institutions, leading an AI governance and applied ML research program that sits at the intersection of social science and frontier AI. • BOUNDARY-OF-COMPETENCE (BoC) RESEARCH PROGRAM Lead a multi-domain research program developing governance frameworks for AI systems deployed in high-stakes professional contexts. The BoC framework identifies where AI competence ends non-uniformly (invisible to aggregate benchmarks) and operationalizes accountability across the full value chain from developer to regulator. – BoC Clinical (AIES 2026 accepted): Demonstrated that AI agents repair only 25% of conversational ruptures versus 90% by human clinicians on identical participan

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Data Science Lead

Klustera

Jan 2017 - Oct 2018 (1 year 10 months)

Led data science and AI for a startup building real-time crowd intelligence systems for large-scale live events. • WIFI TRACKING & CROWD INTELLIGENCE Spearheaded a high-impact AI project for OCESA, one of Latin America's largest festival promoters, to identify and track the movement of stolen cellphones during high-attendance concerts. Built real-time monitoring models using PySpark and PyTorch, integrated with CNN-based computer vision and WiFi sensor data, filtering noise via autoencoders and visualizing crowd flow through Unity3D dashboards for security. • Engineered robust data pipelines by leveraging TypeScript to define rigid structures for incoming geospatial telemetry, including hashed MAC addresses and RSSI signal strengths, ensur

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Professor

Faculty of Science, UNAM

Feb 2011 - Dec 2022 (11 years 11 months)

Research and teaching at UNAM across a decade spanning AI ethics, social data science, and computational social science. • #MiPrimerAcoso BIG DATA STUDY Led a large-scale NLP and Big Data analysis of the #MiPrimerAcoso (#MyFirstHarassment) movement in Mexico, one of the first computational studies of the sexual violence continuum on social media in Latin America. Used PySpark for data processing, GraphQL for retrieval pipelines, and NLP models for in-depth discourse analysis. Findings received extensive international media coverage. • TEACHING – Artificial Intelligence Ethics: Teaching the social and philosophical repercussions of training and deploying generative AI models, covering bias, accountability, epistemic justice, and the govern

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Creative Technologist Lead

Random Interactive

Jan 2011 - Jan 2017 (6 years 1 month)

Led technology direction and creative development at a Mexico City interactive studio specializing in immersive art and experience design. • EL REFLEJO DEL HONOR Developed a cutting-edge motion detection and real-time 3D avatar system for a large-scale government installation showcasing Mexican military ranks and uniforms. The experience used Kinect 3D sensor data integrated with Unity3D to generate avatars that recognized and responded to visitors' body gestures, creating a fully interactive physical-digital experience deployed in a national public venue. Led client communications, technical architecture decisions, and cross-disciplinary team coordination across the full project lifecycle, from concept to installation.

iOS Developer

Ironbit

Jul 2009 - Dec 2010 (1 year 6 months)

Core engineering contributor on the Televisa Deportes iOS app, the most downloaded app in the Mexican App Store in 2010. Engineered the live video streaming component using Core Media and Grand Central Dispatch (multithreading), achieving a 38% improvement in streaming efficiency. Responsible for performance optimization under high-concurrency conditions serving a national sports audience during live broadcast events.

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