Heiner Romero Leiva (He/Him)

Heiner Romero Leiva (He/Him)

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AI Manager @ Wind River | Leading DevSecOps Analytics Platform Engineering | Professor
San José, San José Province, Costa Rica

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    Senior research fellow & Professor
    The Interaction Design Foundation Universidad de Costa Rica UCR
    Jun 2022 - Oct 2022 (5 months)
    Professor of the following courses: Computational Biology. Advanced Machine Learning techniques. Mathematical Optimization.
  • Wind River
    Engineering Manager of AI & Analytics - LatAm
    Wind River
    Apr 2022 - Current (4 years 3 months)
    - Manage, coach, mentor, grow, and develop a diverse team of highly skilled DevSecOps analytics platform engineers (Data Scientist, Cloud Machine Learning Engineers, Data Engineers, Visualization Engineers, User Interface Engineers, Full Stack Software Engineers, Embedded AI Engineers, DevOps Engineers, 15+ Direct Reports) with a servant-leader mindset. Management aspects include diversity-aware hiring, career planning, goal setting, performance assessment, performance improvement, compensation, conflict resolution, and other people management tasks. - Actively build a growth mindset and caring, respectful culture among AI team and interact with the rest of the company. - Collaborate with other product lines, groups, and teams across the
  • LCI Education
    America's Machine Learning Professor (Universidad Véritas)
    LCI Education
    Mar 2022 - May 2022 (3 months)
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    External Lecturer - Mathematical Engineering, Economics and Stats (Contract)
    Universidad Camilo José Cela Universidad Complutense de Madrid Università degli Studi di Milano
    Jul 2021 - Oct 2021 (4 months)
    External lecturer for the review of master's projects in Mathematical Engineering and Advanced Mathematics and Economics - Math & Stats degree.
  • Wind River
    Lead Data Scientist - Senior Member of Technical Staff in Studio AI
    Wind River
    Apr 2021 - Apr 2022 (1 year 1 month)
    - In charge of a team of engineers -ML/AI developers- (AI Engineering departament) that work using several technologies/frameworks such as: AWS, JavaScript/Angular, Python and Linux (VX/LX) working in multi cross projects related to embedded systems (Wind River Studio) and processing real time data from IoT devices. - In charge of IA visualizations integration projects (PoC) with different tools such as: Tableau, Qlik, PowerBi, QuickSight, Looker and Superset. - Build visualizations using Tableau, PowerBi, QuickSight, QlikSense, Apache Superset to analyze data from IoT devices (sensors). - Tableau Server Administrator and developer. - Creating and Provisioning new Instances (Virtual Machines) on AWS. - Implement Machine Learning Algorit
  • LCI Education
    Machine Learning Regional Professor Central & South America (Universidad Véritas)
    LCI Education
    Apr 2021 - Feb 2022 (11 months)
    Teach the most common algorithms used in Machine Learning (Supervised learning, Unsupervised Learning, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning) NLP and Computer Vision.
  • LCI Education
    Machine Learning Professor (Universidad Véritas)
    LCI Education
    Dec 2020 - Apr 2021 (5 months)
    Teach the most common algorithms used in Machine Learning (Supervised learning, Unsupervised Learning, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning) NLP and Computer Vision.
  • Tecnológico de Costa Rica
    Machine Learning Professor
    Tecnológico de Costa Rica
    Dec 2020 - Current (5 years 7 months)
    Teach the most common algorithms used in Machine Learning (Supervised learning, Unsupervised Learning, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning) NLP and Computer Vision.
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    Chief Executive Officer & Founder
    Astra Data
    Oct 2020 - Current (5 years 9 months)
    I work closely with the final customer/Team to deliver adjusted solutions through the main problem detected and recommend new ways to adopt the data culture in organizations. My functions have been: 1. Develop dashboard using PowerBI, Qlikview and Tableau in the pharmacy and banking industries. 2. Mine and analyze data from different data sources, such as: SQLServer, MySQL, Excel, CSV, AS400, SAP, Taleo, MyWorkDay. 3. Use unsupervised algorithms to segment customers and discover the behavioral pattern of people, closely with marketing and sales departments. 4. Use and develop supervised learning algorithms to predict amounts of sales, to decide when a customer will buy certain products or the best time to make a call to offer financi
  • LCI Education
    Business Analytics & Big Data Professor (Universidad Véritas)
    LCI Education
    Aug 2020 - Dec 2020 (5 months)
    I am in charge of design, implement and teach concepts related with Big Data, such as: analysis, storage, fundamentals of Architectures Hadoop & Spark, cloud computing (Azure & Google Cloud), programming languages (Python, Scala, SQL, Big Query) and Data Mining methods.
  • BAC Credomatic
    Senior Data Scientist
    BAC Credomatic
    Apr 2020 - Apr 2021 (1 year 1 month)
    Process, clean, and verify the integrity of data used for analysis. Create Machine Learning algorithms in order to provide better understanding of customers focused on consumption and buying parameters. Implementation of Unsupervised Models (K-Means, PCA, Hierarchical Clustering) to segment people and companies according financial products. Run Supervised Models (Linear Regression, Multivariable Regression, KNN & Decision Trees) to help decision makers to improve financial products (e.g.: saving accounts vs loans), to determine fraud (credit and debit cards), etc. Mining and analyzing data from the DataWarehouse to create business insights. Work closely with the Product Owner in order to provide solutions to a real business problems. Creati
  • Abbott
    Regional Data Scientist Specialist
    Abbott
    Sep 2019 - Apr 2020 (8 months)
    In charge of analyzing data from Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic & Honduras. Datawarehouse cloud-computing (AWS) administrator. Develop and implement Business Intelligence strategies. Mine and analyze data from company databases (pharmaceutical and nutrition division) to drive optimization and improvement of product development, marketing techniques and business strategies. Lead and develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets using Python & R Studio. In charge of building visualizations for different departments across the organization using Qlickview, Tableau and Power BI. Develop predictive models of businesses using information from Google Analytics and Social Media. P
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    Financial Data Analyst
    Banco Popular/ Bank of Costa Rica.
    Dec 2016 - Aug 2018 (1 year 9 months)
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  • UNIVERSIDAD INTERNACIONAL DE LA RIOJA UNIR
    Master's Degree in Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence
    UNIVERSIDAD INTERNACIONAL DE LA RIOJA UNIR
    Jan 2023 - Jan 2024 (1 year 1 month)
  • U
    Postgraduate Degree, Information Technology Project Management
    University of Washington Office of the Registrar
    Oct 2021 - Feb 2022 (5 months)
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    Master of Engineering - MEng, Big Data & Data Science
    LABASAD - Barcelona School of Arts and Design. Universitat Lleida,
    Jun 2021 - Oct 2022 (1 year 5 months)
  • Udacity
    Nanodegree SQL, Data Science
    Udacity
    Mar 2021 - Jul 2021 (5 months)
  • Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
    Master of Science - MSc, Data Science
    Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
    Jan 2020 - Jan 2021 (1 year 1 month)
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    Professional Certificate, Machine Learning
    PROMiDAT Iberoamericano, SA
    Jan 2020
  • University of Colorado Denver
    Graduate Certificate - Specialization, Data Warehousing for Business Intelligence
    University of Colorado Denver
    Jan 2019 - Jan 2020 (1 year 1 month)
  • Universidad Isabel I
    Master of Science - MSc, Master in Big Data and Business Analytics
    Universidad Isabel I
    Jan 2019 - Jan 2020 (1 year 1 month)
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    Licentiate degree - Concentration on Financial Risk, Public Administration
    The Interaction Design Foundation Universidad de Costa Rica UCR
    Jan 2017
  • T
    Bachelor's degree, Economics
    The Interaction Design Foundation Universidad de Costa Rica UCR
    Jan 2014 - Jan 2018 (4 years 1 month)
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    Bachelor's degree, Public Administration
    The Interaction Design Foundation Universidad de Costa Rica UCR
    Jan 2012 - Jan 2016 (4 years 1 month)
  • Colegio Técnico Profesional Jose Figueres Ferrer
    Middle Level Technician in Banking and Finance, Business Administration
    Colegio Técnico Profesional Jose Figueres Ferrer
    Jan 2009 - Jan 2011 (2 years 1 month)
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      Data Science Speaker
      CAMTIC
      Dec 2020
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      Best Financial Analyst South America SLA Performer
      Financial Risk Management CCM Consultant South America
      Feb 2019
      I received a recognition for being the best financial analyst in South America and exceed the SLA standard metric. Standard SLA metric proposed by company: 6 days, SLA achieved: 3.21 days.
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      Best Performer SLA Recognition
      Banco Popular y de Desarrollo Comunal
      Sep 2017
      I received a recognition for being the best performer and improved the SLA metric set by the bank. The metric SLA standard proposed by the bank 5 days, SLA achieved 2.3 days.
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      Best Student in Public Administration
      Universidad de Costa Rica Sede del Pacifico
      Aug 2015
      Best generation average student in Public Administration in 2014.