Juan Esteban Cepeda Baena

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Data Scientist
Bogota D.C., Colombia

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    Research Student
    Fregata Space
    Oct 2021 - Feb 2022 (5 months)
    ● Research and development of image processing pipelines for the identification of pyrocumulus
    ● Research of machine learning models for predicting pyrocumulus movement.
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    Lead Data Scientist
    ChainBreaker
    Aug 2021 - Jun 2022 (11 months)
    Website: https://chainbreaker.community/
    ● Design and development of machine learning pipelines for identifying human trafficking cases in sexual ads.
    ● Design and development of Python API for uploading and getting information from Neo4j and MySQL databases.
    ● Collaborate with international organizations such as The Traffik Analysis Hub and Stop the Traffik
    ● Provide data to Scotiabank for the identification of suspicious clients related with human trafficking cases.
    ● Collaborate with Peru prosecutors for the identification of human trafficking networks using graphs analysis.
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    Data Scientist
    Aleph Mind
    Feb 2020 - Jun 2021 (1 year 5 months)

    ● Design, implement and evaluate models based on ML and software prototypes.
    ● Design data pipelines, including finding appropriate data sources, scraping, filtering, post-processing, de-duplicating, and versioning for production use.
    ● Award: International winner of Datajam 2020 against Human Trafficking organized by IBM and Pasos Libres Foundation (2020)
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    Desarrollador Blockchain
    Financial Blockchain Center
    Feb 2018 - Dec 2018 (11 months)

    ● Design, development and deployment of smart contract in Ethereum and NEM's blockchain.
    ● Organization of development events in cooperation with NEM blockchain regional office.
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    Game Developer
    Baius Games
    Jul 2014 - Nov 2017 (3 years 5 months)
    - Premio Colombia en Línea 2015

    ● Interact with design leads to implement various game mechanics, from concept stage to release quality.
    ● Award: Winner of Colombia en Línea Prize organized by Technology and Communication Colombia's Ministery (2015).
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  • Universidad Nacional de Colombia
    Bachelor in Computer Science
    Universidad Nacional de Colombia
    Jan 2018 - Jan 2022 (4 years 1 month)
  • Universidad Nacional de Colombia
    Bachelor in Business Administation
    Universidad Nacional de Colombia
    Jan 2015 - Jan 2020 (5 years 1 month)
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    International Winner Datajam 2020
    Aleph Mind
    Sep 2020
    A group of students from Colombia has taken the top prize in the first-ever global technology competition to develop data-based solutions to combat human trafficking.

    The four-person “Aleph Mind” team from Universidad de los Andes and Universidad Nacional de Colombia was among the 158 participants from 13 countries who took part in last month’s online DataJam.
  • Universidad Nacional de Colombia
    International Winner Quantopian Contest
    Universidad Nacional de Colombia
    Jan 2020
    Our trading algorithm developed for Quantopian Trading platform, reached the top 10 best trading strategies in the whole world, in terms of it's Sharpe ratio and other financial measurements. We obtained our first award on February 4 of 2020, which means it was used by Quantopian Investment Fund as a real trading strategy.
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    Premio Colombia en Línea 2015
    Baius Games
    Nov 2015 - Dec 2015 (2 months)
    The Colombia Online Award is an annual recognition of the best digital initiatives designed in the country, which is organized by the Colombian Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications (CCIT), the Ministry of ICT and EL TIEMPO Casa Editorial. In the year 2015, Baius Games was recognized as the Best Online Game 2015 with its title "Yolo Life".
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    Combating human trafficking using machine learning: Part 2.
    ChainBreaker
    Jun 2022
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    Combating human trafficking using machine learning: Part 1.
    Jun 2022
    In these series of posts I summarize part of my progress working on an aside project related with the identification of human trafficking networks in a Canadian escort listing website.