Resume of Mateo Echeverri

Mateo Echeverri
Data Scientist

About

I'm an Engineering Physicist. I'm creative, curious and I have excellent analytical skills. I'm passionate about science, technology and the way in which we can use them to solve a great diversity of society's hardest problems. I like to learn about different things, and I have the aspiration to become a polymath. I'm interested in economy, history, literature, and evolutionary biology.

Work Experience

LATAM
Top 10 YC startup. On demand delivery and financial services for Latin America
https://www.rappi.com
November 2020 – July 2021
Data Scientist
Highlights
  • Top 10 YC startup. On demand delivery and financial services for Latin America
  • Worked with data from more than 150.000 partner brands and 10.000.000 users across 9 Latin American countries
  • Crafted a new metric for measuring if a new brand would be successful in the marketplace.
  • Lead an effort to implement the data side of a methodology for putting analysis on the data warehouse in a productive setting, to be accessed from external systems (inverse ETL).
  • Worked as a bridge between the business and product teams, helping brainstorm features for different products and running data analysis for prioritizing them.
  • Modeled the impact that different promotions on the marketplace had on important output metrics, using methods to proximate causality inference with observational data.
  • Built a segmentation model for our more than 150.000 partner brands.
Colombia
Colombian branch of the biggest pension fund conglomerate in Latin America
https://www.proteccion.com
May 2019 – November 2020
Data Scientist
Highlights
  • Colombian branch of the biggest pension fund conglomerate in Latin America.
  • Worked with demographic and financial data from more than 4.000.000 clients.
  • Helped oversee the migration from a legacy system to a cloud native data warehouse (Google Big Query).
  • Developed and put into production a model that transcribed and measured death time in 2.000 calls daily.
  • Used a geographical information system software to analyze the geographic location from our clients and prioritize the location of our offices and service partners across the country.
  • Worked along with actuaries developing a machine learning model used on the pricing of an insurance policy worth $250MM USD a year.
Colombia
Start-up that offers end to end implementation of automation projects based on Robotic Process Automation and Artificial Intelligence
https://www.linkedin.com/company/digital-americas-dapi/
November 2018 – May 2019
Intelligent Automation Consultant
Highlights
  • Startup focused on providing Robotic Process Automation (RPA) development for remote clients.
  • End to end implementation (full stack development) of features for a RPA project management platform.
  • Implemented app features in a serverless stack, using AWS AppSync (GraphQL) and AWS DocumentDB
  • Helped define the project management and software engineering practices for the company.
  • Helped to build the sales pipeline for selling RPA development projects.
Colombia
Latin American company focused on software development and digital transformation consulting for global clients.
https://www.globant.com
July 2017 – November 2018
iOS Developer
Highlights
  • Latin American company focused on software development and digital transformation consulting for global clients.
  • Worked as an iOS developer on big consumer applications for diverse clients.
  • Implemented the required instrumentation code to use Adobe Analytics on the Disney parks iOS applications.
  • Developed an MVP for an analytics based in-app messaging system to be used across different Disney's consumer applications.
  • Migrated some features on the Disney parks application from Model-View-Controller to VIPER architecture.
Colombia
Applied optics research group from one of the top research universities in Colombia
https://www.eafit.edu.co
June 2016 – December 2016
Research Assistant
Highlights
  • Applied optics research group from one of the top research universities in Colombia.
  • Worked as a research assistant on different optics projects.
  • Wrote software interfaces for specialized optics hardware used in different physical experiments.
  • Wrote code for analyzing data gathered from different sensors.
  • Built custom hardware for controlling actuators used on laboratory set-ups.

Projects

  • Object recognition from unmanned aerial vehicles: I developed a model for detection of vehicles from video footage taken by an unmanned aerial vehicle. The model was a convolutional neural network deployed on the edge (a constrained hardware environment).

Contact

Education

Skills

Data Science Advanced
Clustering Regression Statistics
Python Advanced
Pandas sk-learn Flask
SQL Advanced
Big Query Snowflake Window functions

Interests

Sports
Swimming Bouldering