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DATA ENGINEER & AI DEVELOPER

ALICIA CONTRERAS GARRUDO

Six years making sure data arrives intact on the other side. Now with generative AI, I'll also design you a slick front, build you a chatbot and ship it to production.

Data EngineerAI Developer6 yearsMadrid
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// 01 · who I am

About me

Professional with six years of experience in software engineering. Graduated in Computer Science Engineering (bilingual degree) from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Master's in Data Science from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. I'm passionate about data end-to-end: from the architecture, ETL processes and big data that sustain it, to machine learning and business analytics that turn it into decisions. And especially the latest advances in generative AI. Today I develop AI pipelines, build and deploy production applications, and leverage AI in the development process itself to multiply productivity.

INTERESTS

Artificial intelligenceGenerative AI & LLMsAI AgentsRAGMachine LearningData ScienceETLBig DataData ArchitectureBusiness Analytics

Outside work: diving, climbing… and a few more hidden up there ↑

// 02 · where I've worked

Experience

MAY 2026 — PRESENT

Naktor Solutions

Senior AI Developer

  • ▹Development and production deployment of generative AI applications: LLM-based pipelines, RAG systems, and agents using LangChain and LangGraph.
  • ▹End-to-end work across the full stack — backend, frontend and infrastructure: AI lets me cover any technology needed to take a product from idea to production.
  • ▹Direct client interaction to identify key improvement areas and design AI solutions that deliver real value to their businesses.
  • ▹Intensive application of AI in the development process itself to multiply productivity and accelerate delivery.
PythonLLMsLangChainLangGraphRAGFastAPINext.js
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MAR 2024 — MAY 2026

Atradius Crédito y Caución

Senior Big Data Engineer · IFRS17 Lead Coordinator

  • ▹Design and implementation of ETLs for the IFRS17 accounting standard, covering the full ingestion and treatment cycle for insurance policy and contract data.
  • ▹Creation and optimisation of ingestion pipelines with Spark and Azure Data Factory for large-scale financial data processing.
  • ▹IFRS17 project coordination: stakeholder communication, delivery schedule management, and workload distribution across the team for a critical monthly financial reporting process.
DatabricksAzureAzure Data FactoryAzure DevOpsSparkPySparkSQLSparkSQLGitHub
FEB 2021 — MAR 2024

Stratio Big Data

Big Data Engineer

  • ▹ETL flows for El Corte Inglés Spain: daily KPI monitoring and hypothesis-launch workflows; Python + Docker APIs and Metabase dashboards.
  • ▹Production smart search engine for El Corte Inglés: optimal result ranking via genetic algorithms and NLP/NER fine-tuning (Elasticsearch). System live in production on the client's website today.
  • ▹Inference and pattern-detection module on databases with distributed processing (Scala, ScalaSpark, OOP, CI/CD, Kubernetes).
SparkPySparkSparkSQLHDFSScalaScalaSparkPythonElasticsearchDockerKubernetesNLPNER
FEB 2020 — DEC 2020

INDRA · Minsait

Frontend Developer · UX-Front

  • ▹UX-Front Internal Solutions department: development of technology products for external clients and for the company itself, with a user-experience-centred design approach.
VueJSHTML5JavaScriptNodeJiraGit

// 03 · what I work with

Skills & Technologies

LLMsLangChainRAGSparkPySparkAzureDatabricksSQLScalaSparkSQLDockerPythonFastAPINext.jsLLMsLangChainRAGSparkPySparkAzureDatabricksSQLScalaSparkSQLDockerPythonFastAPINext.js
PythonLangGraphAgentes de IANLPNERDockerKubernetesGitElasticsearchMetabaseJavaScriptCI/CDScalaSparkPythonLangGraphAgentes de IANLPNERDockerKubernetesGitElasticsearchMetabaseJavaScriptCI/CDScalaSpark

Big Data

SparkPySparkSparkSQLHDFSDatabricks

Cloud

AzureAzure Data FactoryAzure DevOps

Languages

PythonScalaJavaSQLbash

AI / LLMs

LLMsLangChainLangGraphRAGAI AgentsNLPNER

DevOps

DockerKubernetesCI/CDGitGitHub

Frontend

VueJSNext.jsJavaScriptNodeHTML5

Viz / Search

MetabaseElasticsearch

// 04 · where I studied

Education

2022 — 2024

Master's in Data Science

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

  • ▹Average 9.3 · Honours in Data Mining.
  • ▹Thesis: «Demand forecasting for stock management in the retail sector» — stock sizing using ML techniques.
2016 — 2020

Computer Science Engineering

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

  • ▹Bilingual degree · specialisation in Computing.
  • ▹Thesis: «Lower body pathologies detection with machine learning» — detection of lower-limb pathologies from biometric signals using ML.
2018 — 2019

Erasmus · International Exchange

Warsaw University of Technology

  • ▹Part of the third year of undergraduate studies completed in Poland.

// 05 · what I do for the community

Outreach & community

T3chFest logo
ORGANISER 2016 — PRESENT

T3chFest

Technology outreach event created in 2013, with over 1,800 in-person attendees per edition and additional online reach. The latest edition featured more than 70 talks and over 20 sponsoring companies. A non-profit event: proceeds are donated to high-impact social NGOs. My role focuses on sponsorship acquisition and negotiation: identifying aligned companies, finding synergies, and closing contracts that fund the event.

Sponsors ↗ Want to sponsor us? Get in touch
Garaje de Ideas · Data logo
OUTREACH OCT 2023 — JUN 2024

Garaje de Ideas · Data

Collaboration on data-focused outreach content for the YouTube channel Garaje de Ideas | Data, bringing the data world closer to a broad audience.

youtube.com/@GarajedeideasData ↗

// 06 · languages I speak

Languages

Spanish

Spanish

Native

English

English

C1 · Cambridge FCE

French

French

B2 · DELF