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Carlos Padilla Gomez

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Machine Learning Engineer at Mercado Libre who cut SHAP runs from 5 days to 4 hours.

Colombia
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At Mercado Libre, I operated more than 50 production credit-risk models, with batch inference covering up to 60 million users. I also enforced release criteria for reproducibility, drift, and model performance.

I led the architecture and data model for an internal explainability platform that reduced the heaviest SHAP run from 5 days to 4 hours. I also GPU-accelerated a SHAP workload from 2 days to minutes, reducing compute cost from about $800 to under $50 per run.

Earlier at Mercado Libre, I proposed and built a Dask-based parallel inference architecture that cut inference time by up to 96%, then packaged it as a model-agnostic library adopted by every production model in the area. At Thomas Processing & Systems, I led the company's first ML initiatives, including object-detection models and a numeric OCR system.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Universidad del Norte logoUN

University Professor (Part-time)

Universidad del Norte

Oct 2022 - Dec 2024 (2 years 2 months)

Designed and taught the unsupervised learning module of the university's Data Science diploma program.

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Software / ML Development Engineer

Thomas Processing & Systems

Jan 2020 - May 2022 (2 years 4 months)

Led the company's first ML initiatives, including training CNN object-detection models and building a numeric OCR system with synthetic data generation.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Universidad Internacional de Valencia (VIU) logoUV

Universidad Internacional de Valencia (VIU)

Master of Science, Artificial Intelligence

Pursuing a Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence, expected completion in 2027.

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NVIDIA

NVIDIA Model Parallelism, Model Parallelism

2022 - 2022

Completed the NVIDIA Model Parallelism certification in 2022.

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Coursera

Specialization, Deep Learning and GANs

2020 - 2020

Completed the Deep Learning and GANs Specializations on Coursera in 2020.

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IBM

Professional Certificate, AI Engineering

2020 - 2020

Earned the IBM AI Engineering Professional Certificate in 2020.

Universidad del Norte logoUN

Universidad del Norte

Bachelor of Science, Systems Engineering

2015 - 2019

Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering from Universidad del Norte, completed in 2019.

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