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Name	Dr. Salvador Salazar
Role	Staff Engineer
Summary	Staff Engineer specializing in data and AI/ML engineering, with expertise in large-scale data processing, machine learning systems, and cloud-native technologies. Proven experience in leading cross-functional teams, designing scalable architectures, and implementing production-grade AI solutions.

Work

2024.01 - Present
Head of Data & AI - Staff Engineer

Userlane GmbH

Hands-on technical leadership in data and AI infrastructure, architecting large-scale data platforms, and implementing scalable AI services.
2022.02 - 2023.12
Lead Data Engineering & Analytics

Userlane GmbH

Developed an analytics product, built and led a distributed data team, and implemented core data infrastructure.
2021.01 - 2022.01
Senior Data Scientist

Eyeo GmbH

Built self-service data infrastructure, built pipelines and models using Python, Airflow, and BigQuery.
2020.09 - 2020.12
Team Lead Data & Analytics

BayWa IT GmbH

Led a team of 12 engineers and analysts to modernize data infrastructure.
2018.07 - 2020.08
Lead Data Scientist

Zeppelin GmbH

Developed ML applications and led a small data science team, built ML-based services on AWS.
2016.12 - 2018.06
Data Scientist

Cliqz GmbH

Developed a privacy-first intent detection system for ads, worked with Apache Spark and Databricks.
2012.09 - 2016.08
Researcher

Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics

Conducted research in observational cosmology, published in top-tier scientific journals.

Education

Licentiate

PUC Chile

Astronomy
PhD

LMU Munich

Astrophysics

Skills

	AI/ML System Architecture
	Large-scale Data Processing
	Cloud-native Technologies
	Kafka
	Airflow
	ClickHouse
	Kubernetes
	Python
	FastAPI
	Docker
	PostgreSQL

Languages

	English
	Fluent

	German
	Working Proficiency

	Spanish
	Native

Publications

Publication List

I currently don't have publicaitons in Data/ML, but if for some reason you are interested in my previous work in observational cosmology, you can find it here.