Sebastian Cepeda

Machine Learning Engineer and Data Scientist with an MSc in Electrical Engineering and 10+ years of experience building and deploying production ML systems. Specialized in deep learning, computer vision, LLMs, and generative AI across healthcare, finance, retail, and security.

I work across the full ML lifecycle — data pipelines, model training, MLOps, and cloud deployment — with a focus on shipping systems that have measurable impact on real users.

PyTorch
TensorFlow
scikit-learn
LLMs
Diffusion Models
Computer Vision
NLP
MLOps
AWS
Azure
Docker
Python
Experience
Tecla / IncyteSr. Machine Learning Engineer

Oct 2024 – Mar 2026

  • Developed diffusion models for synthetic tabular data in clinical research.

  • Built LLM-powered embedding pipelines over medical literature; applied clustering to surface insights.

  • Automated clinical study documentation using prompt engineering with Claude.

Intuition MachinesMachine Learning Engineer

Jul 2021 – Jul 2024

  • Built end-to-end MLOps pipeline for 2M+ data points with CI/CD and model versioning.

  • Developed CNN for motion-based threat detection — +20% detection accuracy, ONNX-optimized for real-time.

  • Improved customer models: recall 0.50 → 0.78 with no increase in false positive rate.

  • Implemented SHAP explainability and automated data drift alerting in production.

ConsorcioSenior Data Scientist

Mar 2020 – Jul 2021

  • Churn prediction model on 15M data points, integrated with Salesforce for marketing campaigns.

  • Recommender system that automated campaign execution.

  • NLP and sentiment analysis pipeline from text and speech-to-text data.

CencosudData Scientist

Dec 2018 – Feb 2020

  • Sales forecasting models for retail logistics across millions of SKUs; scaled with Dask and PySpark.

  • Real-time pedestrian detection and tracking system (CNN + Kalman filter).

WoodtechMSSoftware Engineer – Computer Vision

Apr 2015 – Dec 2018

  • Embedded computer vision software for industrial material measurement, deployed globally.

  • Full software lifecycle ownership of an industrial access control product.

Education

MSc Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Chile (2014–2016)

BSc Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Chile (2008–2016)

Projects

Python FAQ Chatbot — RAG chatbot over Python docs using FAISS, sentence-transformers, and LLaMA 3.

educatbild.com — Blog and toolkit for ML and software engineering.

cives.cl — Legal services platform in Spanish.

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