Resume / Updated September 2026

Roberto Villafuerte

AI Engineer | Quito, Ecuador

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Experience

01

Applied AI Engineer

COMPUMAX

  • Translate product and business requirements into architecture, data flows, backend services, and implementation plans.
  • Develop AI and data product capabilities with reliability, security, maintainability, and scalability in view.
02

Lead Data Architect

SaliHub

  • Designed PostgreSQL structures and migrations for a multi-tenant health platform, including access controls, consent, auditability, and reporting.
  • Added database health checks, initial tests, and source-aware deduplication across devices; documented technical decisions.
03

AI Engineer

COMPUMAX

  • Built a support-automation system with FastAPI, Chatwoot, Qdrant, PostgreSQL/pgvector, Redis, and Docker Compose.
  • Implemented retrieval, intent routing, human escalation, logging, and internal adapters, with a human-only fallback.
04

Machine Learning Engineer Intern

Datalysis Group

  • Developed Python and Mage pipelines for data preparation, feature engineering, model evaluation, prediction, alerts, and export.
  • Integrated PostgreSQL ingestion and export, kept predictions separate from evaluation metrics, and corrected schemas, write policies, and documentation.

Selected projects

Auditable ML policy lab

Academic project · University of Helsinki

Classification lab with separate training, validation, and test stages; fairness reports, traceable artifacts, and an API with explicit contracts.

Case study and code

Bio-inspired optimization benchmark

Open-source project · Python

Reproducible comparison of GA, PSO, ACO, and GWO on test functions, routes, and schedules, with configurable seeds, saved metrics, and convergence curves.

Code on GitHub

Education

01

BEng, Computer Science Engineering

Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ)

Scholarship recipient. Final semester with capstone project in progress.

02

Exchange studies, Data Science

University of Helsinki

Average: 4.83/5.0. MSc-level courses: Engineering of ML Systems, Big Data Platforms, Trustworthy ML, and Software Architectures.

Leadership & Teaching

Coordinator2025AI Safety Ecuador
Competitive Programming Instructor2025Competitive Programming Club

Credentials

Technical AI SafetyJanuary 2026BlueDot Impact
Machine Learning SpecializationOctober 2025IBM
2nd Place, IEEEXtreme 18.0, EcuadorOctober 2024IEEE

Languages

EnglishNative or bilingual proficiency
SpanishNative or bilingual proficiency
ChineseHSK 2

Selected skills

  • Data Architecture
  • Machine Learning Engineering
  • Data Engineering
  • Software Architecture
  • Database Design
  • Machine Learning
  • Generative AI
  • MLOps
  • PostgreSQL
  • Database Security
  • Backend Development
  • Cloud Computing
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Docker