Rod Rivera

Experience

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  XING Events | FriendScout24 | BMW | Komdat | EADS | Otto Group | Infiniti Auto

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2009

  Software Engineer
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  Emplido (acquired by Experteer Inc.)

  Jan 2009 - Jan 2012

  CEO & Co-Founder

  Sold analytics recruiting startup to European job board leader, Experteer, in Summer 2011 achieving 50 times ROI.Product Video: https://vimeo.com/33488861

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  Rocket Internet SE

  Jan 2012 - Jan 2016

  Director Advertisement Technology

  How do you provide relevant product recommendations and accurate search results to millions of customers worldwide? And how do you convince managers that this is the best approach?We developed recommender system models using learn-to-rank techniques, bayesian optimisation and factorisation machines. The biggest challenge was the significant input managers wanted in the search results and recommendations. We had to integrate priors defined by business stakeholders and have fallback methods in case a product was out of stock or was completely new in the inventory.We used recommender systems for other organisational tasks, for example, customer relationship management, to determine who sales representatives should contact or what should be promoted in marketing campaigns. We realised that bayesian optimisation is a tool that can be used across any business function and deliver relevant results from marketing and sales to customer support.- Dropgifts: Head of Business Intelligence- OfficeFab: Head of Customer Relationship Management- Lamudi / Carmudi: Head of Business Intelligence & Customer Relationship Management- Lamoda: VP R&D- Linio: Head of Data Science & Machine Learning- Rocket Internet: Director Advertisement Technology Show less

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  Philip Morris International

  Jan 2016 - Jan 2018

  Manager Data Science

  If you have millions of sales points and need to distribute different product types to each of them, how do you do it? And also, how do you maximize profit and customer experience at the same time? And what do you do if you are not allowed to do public marketing but need advocates for your brands?We worked on establishing a hierarchical demand forecasting model while receiving feedback for a multi-armed bandit. The goal was to incentivize the point of sale to promote different brands, and in exchange, the bandit would reward them. Parallel to this, we had multiple profitability targets. As is the case for most tabular data models, we extensively developed hierarchical models with gradient-boosting tree regression. We had significant multimodal data that went beyond tabular data, and we ended modelling as categorical. Show less

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  华为

  Jan 2018 - Jan 2019

  Machine Learning Engineer

  Have you noticed that electronics have thousands of components inside? How do electronics manufacturers estimate demand for their products and the components inside them? Especially when some parts can be shared across models, whereas others are exclusive to a specific product.We developed hierarchical demand forecasting methods using Gaussian Process to estimate the number of products sold and the number of components required for manufacturing. It was challenging as some parts needed to be in stock, whereas others could be ordered just in time. Another exciting aspect is that one can establish solid baselines for time series forecasting using heuristics and business insights and use this as a prior for the Gaussian Process regression. Show less

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  Alibaba Cloud

  Jan 2019 - Jan 2020

  Machine Learning Engineer

  Have you asked yourself how cloud computing can be elastic and grow with your needs? How does a cloud provider know how much they should charge you?We provided the methods for answering these questions using machine learning. We developed demand forecasting techniques for cloud computing using neural temporal point processes to predict the demand of cloud instances and assess the quantity and type of hardware required to cover those needs.

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  Samsung Electronics

  Jan 2021 - Jan 2021

  Technical Director

  Evaluating frontier technologies in the metaverse, web3, virtual reality, augmented reality, synthetic media, artificial intelligence and more for the Top 3 largest electronics manufacturers in the world.

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  AI Product Engineer

  Jan 2023 - now

  AI Product Engineer

  We are the AI community for hackers! We are empowering builders and makers to integrate AI into their applications without prior machine learning expertise.* Create hands-on tutorials and guides on production-ready AI techniques for developers, including few-shot learning, prompt tuning, prompt engineering, model architectures, responsible AI, and thoughtful UX for AI interfaces* Provide accessible explanations of advanced AI concepts tailored for software developers* Share code examples, enabling developers to implement powerful AI capabilities from scratch* Equip the developer community with the practical skills needed to transition into in-demand AI engineering rolesLet us champion the democratization of AI so that every software professional can leverage it to solve real-world problems! Show less

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  The Chris Rod Max Show

  Jan 2024 - now

  Host
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  Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

  Jan 2024 - now

  Professor

  Lecturing on Building AI Products