Javier Herrera Planells
About
Javier Herrera Planells is from Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area. Javier Herrera works in the following industries: "Information Technology and Services". Javier Herrera is currently NLP Engineer / Data Scientist at MeaningCloud, located in Madrid y alrededores, España. In Javier Herrera's previous role as a Team Lead, Software Engineer at BABEL, Javier Herrera worked in Madrid y alrededores, España until Dec 2017. Prior to joining BABEL, Javier Herrera was a Software Engineer at Webinc GmbH & Co KG and held the position of Software Engineer at Wiesbaden y alrededores, Alemania. Prior to that, Javier Herrera was a NLP Research Intern - AI Department (GSI) at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, based in Madrid y alrededores, España from Sep 2012 to Dec 2013.
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Javier Herrera Planells's current jobs
MeaningCloud is a company with 20+ years’ experience in Natural Language Processing (NLP). NLP projects for clients in financial, biomedical (health and pharma), and customer care among other domains. Cooperation with domain experts, linguists and engineers throughout the whole project lifecycle. Main clients: ING, Pfizer, Carrefour. Studying the state of the art of NLP and using Deep Learning frameworks and implementations for Python (custom PyTorch models, Transformers, BERT family). Also pipelines and NLP libraries (spaCy, NLTK), Data Science tools (Scikit-learn) and explainable AI tools (Google LIT, LIME). Software development for rule-based NLP: semantic pattern-matching engine, which can be used for text classification, entity recognition and knowledge extraction (similar to Stanford TokensRegex, spaCy rule-based matcher). This enables hybrid NLP: inference using both Deep Learning and rule-based NLP. Key soft skills: state-of-the-art research, analytical skills, cooperation with non-technical staff (domain experts, linguists, sales), data-oriented storytelling.
Javier Herrera Planells's past jobs
Babel is a software consultancy company. Sanitas/Bupa was my main client during my stay. Team lead for an Agile team of 5 engineers. Health insurance projects involving planning (Scrum methodology), development (Java, AngularJS), testing (jUnit, Cucumber, Selenium) and code quality reviews. Also cooperation with DevOps and continuous integration (Docker, Jenkins, SonarQube). Key soft skills: Agile project management, technical leadership, project lifecycle.
Webinc is an online payment services provider based in Germany. Bank API integrations for online payments, adhering to security standards for sensitive data (PCI DSS) and cybersecurity guidelines (OWASP). Visualization dashboards for analyzing financial data (JavaScript, MySQL, GitLab). Key soft skills: proactive attitude; cross-cultural communication, including multiple languages.
Studies about the state of the art of Natural Language Understanding (NLU), applied to virtual assistants (similar to Google Assistant, Alexa). Architecture design for an artificial intelligence chatbot featuring NLU (similar to Rasa, Dialogflow), intelligent agents (Jason), Semantic Web knowledge (RDF, web ontologies) and Information Retrieval capabilities (SIREn, Lucene). Development including Python, WebSockets, Flask. Project repository on GitHub: https://github.com/gsi-upm/calista-bot Key soft skills: state-of-the-art research, self-directed learning.