Leandro Domínguez
Based in Uruguay · Open to remote
Leandro
Domínguez
Machine Learning Engineer & Data Scientist

Computer Engineer specializing in Machine Learning and Data Science. I work at the intersection of NLP, LLMs and Recommender Systems — building pipelines, training models, and shipping them at scale. Currently pursuing an MSc in ML & Data Science at UdelaR.

Work Experience
SunnyData Oct 2025 – Present
Machine Learning Engineer
Working on ML and Computer Vision solutions for one of the world's most prestigious fast-food chains. Leveraging Databricks for scalable data pipelines and model training.
ORT Uruguay Jan 2025 – Jan 2026
Lecturer — Big Data Master
Taught Data Analytics at the Master's level: EDA, embeddings, dimensionality reduction (PCA, t-SNE, UMAP), and applied ML. Three-hour weekly lectures combining theory and hands-on coding.
PedidosYa Aug 2022 – Oct 2025
Senior Data Scientist
Development and deployment of ML models (LLMs, recommendation systems, classifiers). Built a product taxonomy using LLMs that significantly improved search and restaurant/product recommendations — currently live across multiple Delivery Hero markets worldwide. Designed and ran A/B tests and measured recommendation diversity at scale.
Xmartlabs Aug 2021 – Jul 2022
ML Engineer
Updated and deployed a recommendation system for a major global clothing brand using Neural Networks trained on user activity. Also worked on semantic search and product similarity.
Marvik Feb 2021 – Aug 2021
ML Engineer
Built a job candidate recommendation system using NLP to extract key skills from resumes. Analyzed social media posts to detect untapped market opportunities.
Rootstrap Aug 2018 – Jan 2021
Ruby on Rails Developer
Backend development for U.S. clients with Ruby on Rails. Delivered scalable, secure solutions using Scrum methodology in cross-functional teams.
UdelaR — FADU Nov 2015 – Aug 2018
Math Teacher
Taught Integral Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Symmetry at undergraduate level.
Skills
ML / Data Science
Python Sklearn Pandas XGBoost LightGBM PCA t-SNE UMAP FastAPI Streamlit
NLP / LLMs
Transformers Hugging Face OpenAI API RAG Embeddings Vector Search Faiss ChromaDB FastText spaCy
Cloud & Big Data
AWS GCP Databricks Spark/PySpark BigQuery Airflow MLflow
Databases
PostgreSQL MongoDB Redis Neo4j Elasticsearch Redshift
Dev & Tools
REST APIs Ruby on Rails Git Docker Jira Notion
Graphs
Spektral NetworkX Gephi Neo4j
Education
2024 – Present
MSc. Machine Learning & Data Science
Facultad de Ingeniería, UdelaR
2013 – 2022
Computer Engineering
Facultad de Ingeniería, UdelaR
Talks & Expositions
2024–Now
Co-organizer — ConnectIA Conference & ConnectIA Meetups
Largest ML conference in Uruguay
2023
"Biases in AI"
ML & Data Science Montevideo Meetup
2022
"News Analysis on Social Media using NLP"
ML & Data Science Montevideo Meetup
2021
"Analyzing Political Trends in Twitter Users using Graphs"
ML & Data Science Montevideo Meetup
2020
"Improving Search in Web Applications with Elasticsearch"
Elastic Latam Meetup
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