Beñat Galdós

Beñat Galdós

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Data Governance Lead & Data Architect
Madrid, Spain

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  • University of Deusto
    Associate Professor
    University of Deusto
    Sep 2021 - Aug 2022 (1 year)
    I taught Web Engineering & Programming Methodology and Languages, as part of the double degree curriculum in Business Administration and Computer Engineering. I received an average assessment of 4.6/5 by the students. I also directed 2 End of Degree Projects of Al applications. Task Performed: Prototype implementation, Coordination of team tasks, Programming, Data Visualization & Storytelling, Tech training
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    Founder
    GALDE
    Feb 2019 - Current (7 years 4 months)
    Via my company, Galde, we create Data Products, Al and Data Governance solutions, especially focused on Heads of Innovation and Chief Data Officers of corporates, R&D centers and public institutions. We optimize business operations and help innovation teams prototype data products, by creating MVPs that can scale technically, economically, and are ready to be governed. I have managed multidisciplinary teams and coordinated and implemented technological strategies aligned with the business objectives of national and international clients. A selection of relevant projects is showcased in this profile, even though we have developed more than 50 projects in Galde.
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  • IE University
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    CertGED: Certification Program in Data Governance and Strategy
    IE University, Club CDO
    Feb 2025 - Jul 2025 (6 months)
    Grade: 9/10. • Awarded by the Chief Data Officer Club Spain & Latam and IE University. • Creation of the "Data for Good" Data Strategy and Governance Project for Ferrer.
  • Santa Clara University, Leavey School of Business
    Business Administration & Management
    Santa Clara University, Leavey School of Business
    Aug 2018 - Dec 2018 (5 months)
    Grade: 4 / 4 (A) Exchange student during the Fall Quarter. Taken courses: • World Economic History. • Investments. • Management of Organizations.
  • University of Deusto
    Innovandis - Specialization in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
    University of Deusto
    Feb 2017 - Jun 2019 (2 years 5 months)
    Grade: 9.87 / 10 - Est. GPA: 4 / 4
  • University of Deusto
    Computer Engineering + Business Administration and Management
    University of Deusto
    Sep 2014 - Jan 2020 (5 years 5 months)
    Grade: 9.07 / 10 - Est. GPA: 3.70 • According to SEDEA (Spanish Society of Academic Excellence): 8th Best Computer Engineering Record in Spain (2019-2020 Class, 2021 List). See more information in the section referred to Awards. • Private tutor of the following courses: Programming I-IV, Telematics, Computer Networks, Programming Methodology and Calculability & Complexity. • Main class representative from Sophomore to Senior years. • Secondary class representative in Freshman year.
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    Palantir Foundry Product & Delivery Lead – Sonnedix public Remote experience
    Sonnedix
    Dec 2025 - Current (6 months)
    Sonnedix is a global renewable energy producer operating large-scale solar power plants across multiple countries. I acted as a Product & Delivery Lead within Palantir Foundry, owning the end-to-end delivery of data products and operational applications used by asset management and O&M teams. I served as the primary bridge between business stakeholders (operations, asset management, engineering) and the Foundry engineering layer, translating operational needs into scalable ontology-driven solutions. I led solution design, delivery planning, stakeholder alignment, and adoption, while remaining hands-on with Foundry development to ensure technical quality and delivery velocity.
  • Adevinta
    Data Governance Expert – Adevinta
    Adevinta
    Aug 2025 - Dec 2025 (5 months)
    Adevinta is a leading tech company that holds multiple platforms to connect people and foster transactions between them. Some known platforms of the company in Spain are InfoJobs, Fotocasa, Habitaclia, Coches.net, Motos.net and Milanuncios. The company is at a financial rearrangement period, on which every single brand will be owned by a separate legal entity. Within this context, one of Adevinta's main platforms in Spain (InfoJobs) needs to strengthen its Data Governance. My goal has been to operationalize the Data Governance strategy defined by the Chief Data Officer and the Data Platform & Governance Director within InfoJobs. Performed Tasks: Technical architecture and design of a project, Programming, Data Integration, Data Visualiz
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    Interim Data Partner – SCOR, SE public Remote experience
    SCOR SE
    Jun 2024 - Current (2 years)
    SCOR, SE is one of the world's leading companies in the reinsurance sector and is listed on Euronext Paris. The company needs to optimize its pricing and data consolidation processes, in addition to accessing new markets in the P&C (Property & Casualty) area. In collaboration with P&C IT & Innovation Partners, I have played a key role in automating pricing and compliance reporting processes using Microsoft Power BI and integrating Palantir Foundry to consolidate data from various sources, such as Salesforce, Omega and SAP Ledger. Leveraging Microsoft Azure, I identified hidden patterns between clients and policies, contributing to the enhancement of SCOR's product portfolio. Additionally, I led the creation of technical documentation, UAT
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    Financial Automation – Midis Group public Remote experience
    Midis Group
    May 2024 - Sep 2024 (5 months)
    Midis Group is a leading software solutions provider recognized by the World Economic Forum. We have developed a set of automation tools and Microsoft Power BI dashboards so that business analysts can reduce 99% of their time in information retrieval and accounting consolidation reporting tasks by fine-tuning LLMs. The main information source has been SAP S/4, on which I have closely collaborated with Midis' business and financial analysts. Performed tasks: Technical architecture and design of a project, Prototype implementation, Programming, Time Series Analysis, R&D Al research on models, Data Visualization & Storytelling
  • Confidential
    Computer Vision for Panel Maintenance – Solar Engineering Company public Remote experience
    Confidential
    Jan 2024 - Sep 2024 (9 months)
    The client wanted to automate several internal processes by using computer vision technologies. We have developed a set of Computer Vision algorithms to automate solar panels' error detection and typing, as well as create the infrastructure for improving the Convolutional Neural Networks system, related to Electroluminescence and Thermography.
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    FireDash: Firefighter Management System – Bilbao City Council public Remote experience
    Bilbao City Council
    Jan 2023 - Sep 2023 (9 months)
    Bilbao’s Fire Department needed to protect lives with real-time guidance, integrate with existing systems, and have a firefighter-specific solution. Galde built an analytical platform to optimize interventions using logistics BI expertise, neural networks, and time-series modeling. They leveraged data from the REACH program and Basque Open Data, displaying insights with InfluxDB.
  • Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
    Data Visualization Specialist – University Rey Juan Carlos public Remote experience
    Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
    Aug 2022 - Apr 2023 (9 months)
    The University is involved in various research projects that require the presentation of results through a web interface to manipulate the data. I was in charge of preparing and laying out the website for the SC Learning project, allowing interaction with genome data and relevant research results. Performed Tasks: Technical architecture and design of a project, Prototype implementation, Programming, Data Visualization & Storytelling
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    Production Management ERP – Calderería Iturralde
    Calderería Iturralde
    May 2022 - Mar 2023 (11 months)
    Calderería Iturralde is an SME that has been operating in the production business for many years. When controlling the work process, work spreadsheets had a lot of missing information. 1. Ensure data quality in all information systems. 2. Configuration of the Microsoft PowerBI and ERP Odoo dashboard and integration between these systems, enabling future integrations (SAGE). 3. Configuration of stock management and product catalog. 4. Automatic generation of project phases and control tasks from the budget. 5. ERP training for the technical office.
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    Business Intelligence & CRM Automation – BELCA
    BELCA
    Mar 2022 - Feb 2023 (1 year)
    To make BELCA's business operations more efficient and enable the company's international expansion, I implemented CRM software (HubSpot), integrated it with SAP Business One and harmonized taxonomies, tax codes and customer data. Performed Tasks: Technical architecture and design of a project, CRM implementation, ERP Integration, Programming, Financial Modelling, Data Visualization & Storytelling
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    AI Training for Electronics PhDs – IKERLAN
    IKERLAN, S. Coop.
    Mar 2022 - Nov 2022 (9 months)
    From IKERLAN, the R&D center of the Mondragón Group, we were asked to provide accelerated training in AI to the IoT + Electronics team of researchers. We built a portfolio of 10 sessions that comprised a summary of Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning techniques, as well as NLP, Computer Vision, and industry applied cases.
  • Confidential
    Interim CTO – eLearning Platform
    Confidential
    Oct 2020 - Jul 2023 (2 years 10 months)
    Online training and courses are increasingly relevant in our society. However, it seems that people over 55, who may have more difficulties with the use of technologies, have nothing that fits their requirements. I defined and built the complete architecture of the eLearning Platform, an online course platform for seniors over 55 who want to age actively and healthily.
  • Confidential
    Interim CTO – Patient Experience Startup public Remote experience
    Confidential
    Oct 2020 - Mar 2023 (2 years 6 months)
    The startup was created from the need to automate and digitalize patient experience healthcare field. To do this, the startup wanted to make use of NLP & GenAI techniques with expect medical knowledge to support health professionals. In this process, I have been responsible for the technological architecture, in addition to coordinating different external technological developments (e.g. HiTZ Zentroa to generate language models in Spanish and Basque, or voicebots).
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    Founding Engineer – Comadera
    Comadera
    Jun 2020 - Jun 2023 (3 years 1 month)
    Since mid-2020, Galde has supported this startup to develop multiple processes that were relevant for the eCommerce platform management. Additionally, Galde has given insights and directed the conversation with R&D centers, etc. in order to give the startup new chances to apply for R&D projects by developing recommender systems for their platform. In August 2023, Comadera has decided to hire new people, so it has been the moment to move on Galde's role.
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    AI Education – AI Saturdays Euskadi: Bilbao & San Sebastian public Remote experience
    Saturdays AI
    Jan 2020 - Jan 2025 (5 years 1 month)
    AI Saturdays (or AI6) is a global non-profit community, consisting of reaching all Intelligence education Artificial of the quality and rigor of the best universities in the world. From the hand of Galde, Global Shapers Bilbao and Camp Tecnológico, in addition to a network of sponsors among which are comprised by SPRI, Bizkaiko Foru Aldundia and Kutxa Kultur, the AI6 community comes to Bilbao and Donostia-San Sebastian.
  • University of Deusto
    Galde Systems: Automation in the management of software issues using OCR techniques
    University of Deusto
    Jun 2019 - Jan 2020 (8 months)
    The capstone project for my Computer Engineering degree consisted on creating an Android app which, thanks to OCR techniques based on deep learning models, can automatically suggest a solution to a software issue. The project, directed by Iñigo Lopez-Gazpio, was the only one that received the "Honors" merit in the class. This capstone project is the prototype of Galde FAQ. If you want more information, you can check the URL (SPA).
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  • University of Deusto
    8th Best Computer Engineering Academic Record in Spain, 2019-2020 Class
    University of Deusto
    Nov 2021 - Current (4 years 7 months)
    Pondering the different tasks, in addition to the strictly academic workload that I did during my student days, SEDEA recognized me as the person with the 8th Best Computer Engineering Academic Record in Spain (2019-2020 Class, Ranking 2021). The Spanish Society of Academic Excellence (SEDEA) is a national entity whose main mission is to identify and accredit the best graduates in the country, putting them in value and contributing from multiple approaches to their work success. Verification link: https://www.sedea.es/privado/verificacion.php Verification code: iWyEn5x7s2JX More information about SEDEA (SPA): https://www.sedea.es/
  • University of Deusto
    Youth Entrepreneurship Program Grant (2019)
    University of Deusto
    Dec 2019 - Current (6 years 6 months)
    Due to the innovative approach of Galde FAQ, I was selected as a participant in the 2019 Youth Entrepreneurship Program, organized by the University of Deusto, and funded by the Basque Government. More information about the program (SPA): https://www.deusto.es/cs/Satellite/deusto/es/masteres/estudios-masteres/programa-emprendimiento-juvenil-/programa
  • University of Deusto
    Sebastián Iruretagoyena Prize to "the Best Business Administration & Management Capstone Project" (Business Model Creat
    University of Deusto
    Jul 2019 - Current (6 years 11 months)
    This award refers to the current Galde FAQ solution. More information about the award ceremony in the following link (SPA): https://www.deusto.es/es/inicio/vive/actualidad/noticias/deusto-business-school-entrega-el-premio-sebastian-iruretagoyena-al-mejor-trabajo-de-fin-de-grado-en-ade-1/noticia
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  • Universidad del País Vasco
    University of Deusto
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    Use of artificial intelligence to solve a 2-player competitive game: the 15 Sticks game
    Universidad del País Vasco, University of Deusto, Ekaia Aldizkaria
    Aug 2019 - Current (6 years 10 months)
    This is a project proposed by Prof. Iñigo Lopez-Gazpio, where some students of the Double Degree in Computer Engineering + Business Administration & Management, at the University of Deusto, wrote a paper with his assistance in the context of the "Intelligent Systems" subject. In this paper, we analyzed an implementation based on Reinforcement Learning to play the 15 Sticks game better than a human. Afterwards, some experiments were made over several hyperparameters to fine-tune the underlying model and make the software agent proficient in playing this game. The paper was published in Basque in Ekaia Aldizkaria, an informative magazine created and maintained by the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). A summarized version of the p