Hi! I’m Fernando, Software Engineer PhD working at VÓCALI as NLP and Dev team lead.
More than 15 years working in IT and technology transfer projects in private companies and public entities mainly in the areas of software analysis, software development, machine learning, natural language processing (NLP), speech recognition or R&D. During these years, I’ve had the opportunity to work in many different roles such as software developer, researcher, project manager or team lead.
I’m enthusiastic about AI, machine learning, NLP, data science and the creation of products that combine these areas adding real value to companies and users.
I also like teaching and help people. I have worked as professor during more than ten years (three of them at University of Murcia), I have published more than 20 scientific papers, advised a PhD thesis, mentored more than 15 internships and supervised 4 computer science final degree projects.
I’m always trying to learn. I have received continuous training (about 3500 hours) in areas such as project management, software development methodologies and languages, NLP, machine learning or data science.
PhD in Software Engineering
University of Murcia
MSc Software Engineering Masters Degree
University of Murcia
BSc in Computer Science
University of Murcia
IT, NLP, Data, Research
VÓCALI uses speech and natural language processing technologies to develop projects as medical dictation software or speech-to-text systems mainly for healthcare and legal sectors. VÓCALI also develop NLP and machine learning projects on healthcare records and IVR systems.
I’ve had the opportunity to work in different technical and management roles such as software developer, NLP researcher, project manager or team lead. I take part of the analysis, R&D as well as in deployment, users support and users training in Spain and LATAM. In the last years I’m mainly focused on leading the NLP and computational linguistics department.
Main areas: software development, machine learning, natural language processing, automatic speech recognition (ASR), language models, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, ontologies, .NET, C#, Python, project management, agile development, Scrum or users training.
Researcher in Software Engineering related projects and technology transfer projects to private companies, specially in the areas of requirements engineering, model driven development, UML and software verification & validation (V&V).
Some results of these projects can be found in the publications section.
Teaching