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Rubén De La Fuente

Senior Data Scientist / AI Engineer

€650/day
Madrid, ES
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Rubén

Senior Data Scientist and AI Engineer with over 15 years of experience, specializing in LLM systems, agentic AI, and NLP applied to production environments in regulated sectors such as fintech.

Throughout my career, I have designed and deployed conversational analytics platforms, structured extraction pipelines with LLMs, and robust evaluation frameworks that ensure the quality and auditability of AI systems. I have end-to-end experience: from problem definition to stakeholder adoption.

I am passionate about transforming AI capabilities into real operational solutions. I am fluent in English, Spanish, and French, and accustomed to collaborating with multicultural teams and technical and business profiles at all levels.
  • Spanish

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • French

    Fluent

  • Danish

    Conversational

Can work on-site
Madrid (up to 50km)

Experience

  • PAYPAL • · MADRID
    Senior Data Scientist / AI Engineer
    January 2019 - January 2026 (7 years)
    Developer Platform Organization — design and deployment of LLM-based systems for operational analytics, regulatory compliance, and internal tools in a regulated fintech environment.
    AGENTIC SYSTEMS
    I designed and deployed an agentic analytics platform in production using the Anthropic API (Claude tool use), enabling natural language queries over BigQuery — full ownership of the lifecycle, from problem definition to stakeholder adoption. I implemented prompt versioning, iterative optimization, and evaluation harnesses to continuously measure output quality and reliability.
    LLM EVALUATION AND STRUCTURED EXTRACTION
    I developed a batch LLM extraction pipeline that transforms unstructured P1+ incident reports into structured compliance datasets — adopted by the risk team for operational analysis. I designed schema-based JSON extraction with Claude tool use, building QA and validation workflows with pytest to ensure auditability of over 100 critical documents. I developed evaluation frameworks based on my Machine Translation experience (BLEU, TER, formal metrics) adapted to assess LLM output fidelity, consistency, and regulatory alignment.
    ENTERPRISE AI TOOLS
    I developed reusable LLM-powered tools (documentation automation, EDA assistant, survey design) integrated into the corporate repository — contributing to AI governance and best practice standards. I collaborated with Directors, VPs, and Principal Engineers to translate AI capabilities into operational solutions; I mentored junior data scientists and engineers.
    BigQuery LLM Evaluation Data science Data visualization
  • PAYPAL • · MADRID
    Machine Translation Engineer
    January 2011 - January 2018 (7 years)
    Over 7 years of hands-on experience in multilingual NLP and language technology, directly applicable to enterprise language solutions.
    I led the end-to-end expansion of PayPal's Machine Translation infrastructure to over 25 languages — encompassing translation pipeline design, model integration, linguistic QA, and production deployment. I evaluated multilingual model quality using formal MT metrics (BLEU, TER, quality estimation), performing systematic error analyses and iterating on model performance. I designed automated NLP preprocessing pipelines and built datasets for testing and QA of new model versions — including annotation guidelines and quality control processes. I integrated translation APIs into internal systems; served as an internal language technology consultant and Subject Matter Expert (SME) for product and engineering teams.
    natural-language-processing Data scientist NLP machine translation Linguistics

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Education

  • MSc Big
    UOC
    2025
    MSc Big
  • Gen AI 360 Certification
    Activeloop
    2023
    Gen AI 360 Certification

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