Experience

Chief Information Officer

OncoBrain (Formerly The BlueScrubs)
Jan 2026 — Present
Permanent full-time · Remote
AI Architect, Strategic Advisor, Consultant

Moffitt Cancer Center
Jan 2026 — Present
Contract full-time · Remote
Chief Solutions Architect

Innova Montreal
Mar 2018 — Present
Permanent full-time · Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Recent mandates: - Senior Solutions Architect / Data & AI at CAE. Independent contractor. - KPMG LLP, Senior Solutions Architect, Independent contractor. - Design and build GPT/LLM applications - Design and development of a High-Frequency Trading (HFT) System for cryptocurrencies, handling thousands of prices in real-time with Rust and Python. - Design and build backend and frontend applications for Ethereum. - Design and build a large infrastructure (fully IaC) for OCR and Content Analysis, able to handle tens of millions of documents. - Development of a churn model for Medicaid and Medicare, and its infrastructure in Azure Machine Learning. - Design and development of a fully serverless machine learning platform for super-fast and simple model deployment (AWS), with massive scaling capabilities. - Rearchitecting several monolithic applications into microservices and deployment in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) - Research & Development of Expert-Augmented Machine Learning (EAML), a methodology and algorithm to build high precision and trustworthy machine learning models.
Senior Solutions Architect / Data & AI

CAE
Jul 2023 — Apr 2024
Contract full-time · Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Hybrid
Help the business to deliver and manage different kinds of AI solutions. More precisely Data & AI Environments, AI Development, Generative AI, Conversational AI, and MLOps. Independent contractor.
Senior Solutions Architect

KPMG Canada
Jun 2022 — Jun 2023
Contract full-time · Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Hybrid
Independent contractor.
Senior Solutions Architect

National Bank of Canada
Sep 2020 — May 2022
Permanent full-time
Design solutions, roadmap, and oversight of: - Enterprise Content Management (ECM) - Digital transformation - OCR/AI applications - Business process automation - Electronic signature
Senior Solutions Architect — Innovation Labs

National Bank of Canada
May 2017 — Sep 2020
Permanent full-time · Montreal, Canada Area
- Part of the Transformation Office, the Innovation Lab helped the organization to accelerate and deliver initiatives of medium-large impact. - Research and development (full stack) with cutting-edge technologies looking to make innovation an asset for the organization. - Work with FinTech and Startups in general to evaluate and test their solutions. - Experiment and prototype with all kind of technologies and programming languages, including, but not limited to, API, Microservices, Messaging system, Containers, Cloud solutions (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure), Open Banking, Bank as a Service, Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots, Machine learning, Computer Vision, all kinds of database technologies, Big data, Blockchain, Smart contracts, Search technologies, etc. - Sometimes, design, develop, and deploy solutions for production systems.
Technical Lead

National Bank of Canada
Aug 2013 — Apr 2017
Permanent full-time · Montreal, Canada Area
Financial Market Operations and Payment - Improved the team dynamic and performance by introducing new tools and practices related to agile and DevOps. - Lead several Business Process Optimization (BPO) initiatives related to P&L, Structured notes, International settlement, and payments. - Created a framework for Business Process Optimization (BPO) which has allowed a significant saving in time and quality gain for many business processes. - Data analysis, modeling, integration, and reporting related to most of the Financial Market systems. - Redesign of legacy applications using a Domain-driven design (DDD) approach which has increased the productivity of developers and reduced the maintenance cost significantly. - Migration and redesign of a compute-intensive application to the cloud (Monte Carlo simulations, market shocks, Greeks, etc.), scaling up to thousands of CPU cores. - Introduced the use of Executable specifications (Gherkin) for the development of SWIFT messages with outstanding results.
Lead Solutions Architect

Beyond the Rack
Mar 2012 — Jul 2013
Permanent full-time · Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area
- E-commerce, Payment Solutions, Shopping Cart, Inventory, Printing, Shipping, UPS, Canada Post - ERP / CRM, NetSuite, PlanetPress, PDI (Kettle) - Domain-Driven Design (DDD) - LAMP, PHP, MySQL, Zend Framework, Symfony2, TDD, PHPUnit, BDD, Behat - SOAP, REST, Beanstalkd (Queue system) - Systems Integration - SCRUM, JIRA, Confluence
Senior Software Developer

DataCandy
Oct 2010 — Apr 2012
Permanent full-time · Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area
- Loyalty Programs & Gift Cards Platform, POS - LAMP, PHP, MySQL, DB2, Zend Framework, PHPUnit, JQuery - REST, Facebook Apps, WordPress - SCRUM, JIRA, Confluence
Co-Founder

Bewyz Inc
Sep 2009 — Jul 2010
Permanent part-time · Los Angeles, United States
- ERP / CRM, E-Invoicing, E-Billing - Social Networking, Facebook Apps
Lead Software Architect

CreativeCom
Jan 2007 — Jul 2009
Contract full-time · Milan, Italy
- Team management - Social Networking, Elgg, Wordpress - LAMP, PHP, MySQL, OpenLDAP, Horde Framework, JQuery, AJAX
Software Architect

Europelowcost
Jul 2004 — Dec 2006
Contract part-time · Milan, Italy
- B2B, Affiliate Programs, SEO - Web crawling, Multithreading - Microsoft Visual Studio, ASP.NET, C#, Web Forms, MS SQL Server, AJAX
Assistant Professor

Universidad Tecnólogica de La Habana “Jose Antonio Echeverría”, CUJAE
Sep 2004 — Jul 2006
Permanent full-time · Havana, Cuba
Department of Computer Sciences Engineering - Director of the technical operation team - Professor of Software Engineering, Programming, Telematics and Operative System - Researcher on Systems Integration, Artificial Intelligence and Personalization
System Administrator & Development

Universidad Tecnólogica de La Habana “Jose Antonio Echeverría”, CUJAE
Jan 2000 — Jul 2004
Contract part-time · Havana, Cuba
Department of Computer Sciences Engineering - Red Hat Linux, Windows Servers, Routing and Switching, TCP / IP - ASP, ASP.NET, MS SQL Server, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Flash - LAMP, PHP, MySQL, Horde Framework - Borland Delphi

Education

Master of Science (MSc), Computer Software Engineering

Universidad Tecnológica de La Habana “José Antonio Echeverría”, CUJAE
2004 — 2007 An advanced program that deepened my expertise in software engineering, the design of complex computer systems, advanced database systems, artificial intelligence, dynamic systems, advanced XML applications, computational mathematics, and research in AI and systems integration.
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering

Universidad Tecnológica de La Habana “José Antonio Echeverría”, CUJAE
1999 — 2004 **Computer sciences** A rich and comprehensive program covering computer architecture; programming I, II, III, IV (algorithms, data structures, files, compilers, OOP); database systems (I, II); computer graphics (2D, 3D); operating systems; computer networks (I, II); computer simulation; processes and control systems; artificial intelligence (algorithms, Prolog, LISP); software engineering (I, II, III); research in personalization. **General engineering** The program also provided a strong engineering foundation, with studies in mathematical logic; algebra (I, II) and calculus (I, II, III, IV); probability and statistics (I, II); numerical mathematics; operations research (I, II); physics (I, II, III); accounting (I, II); technical drawing; mechanical engineering.

Student Supervision

Shared Calendar System for Organizational Management

Instituto Superior Politécnico “José Antonio Echeverría”, CUJAE
Jun 2006
Undergraduate thesis · Center for Systems Engineering Studies (CEIS)
A student thesis on a shared calendar system for organizational management, submitted toward the Computer Engineering degree. **Students:** Yanet Fors Isalguez and Deny Lester Collado Coello
Design and Implementation of an Intelligent Personal Agent for the CEIS Intranet

Instituto Superior Politécnico “José Antonio Echeverría”, CUJAE
Jun 2006
Undergraduate thesis · Center for Systems Engineering Studies (CEIS)
A thesis proposal focused on designing and implementing an intelligent personal agent for the CEIS intranet. **Student:** Adrián Vieyto Amador

Licenses & certifications

Machine Learning

Stanford University
Issued Sep 2017 [View credential ↗](https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/certificate/JUTPMH7ERATP)

Courses

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate 2020

Udemy
Blockchain - Hyperledger Fabric 1.0 (Advanced Deep Dive)
Nov 4, 2017
Blockchain - Hyperledger Fabric 1.0 (Jump Start)
Oct 28, 2017
Corda Developer Training by R3
Apr 17, 2018

Publications

Expert-Augmented Machine Learning

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Feb 18, 2020 The performance of predictive modeling is dependent on the amount and quality of available data. In practice, we rely on human experts to perform certain tasks and on machine learning for others. However, the optimal learning strategy may involve combining the complementary strengths of humans and machines. We present expert-augmented machine learning, an automated way to automatically extract problem-specific human expert knowledge and integrate it with machine learning to build robust, dependable, and data-efficient predictive models. [Show publication ↗](https://www.pnas.org/content/117/9/4571)
A Proposed Intranet Model Built Entirely on Free Software

Annual Research Report, Department of Computer and Information Science, Polytechnic University of Havana
2007 Proposes an intranet model built entirely on free software. Explores how these tools can support internal information sharing and collaboration.
A Recommendation System for Intranet Resources

Annual Research Report, Department of Computer and Information Science, Polytechnic University of Havana
2006 Explores a recommendation system for helping users discover relevant intranet resources. Focuses on connecting users with information that matches their interests and needs.
Understanding Personalization

Annual Research Report, Department of Computer and Information Science, Polytechnic University of Havana
2005 Examines personalization and its role in adapting information systems to individual users. Explores how user preferences and context can shape the content and resources presented.
Intranets: A State-of-the-Art Review

Annual Research Report, Department of Computer and Information Science, Polytechnic University of Havana
2004 Reviews the state of intranet technologies and approaches at the time of publication. Examines their role in organizing internal information and supporting knowledge sharing.