Francisco Romero

Francisco Romero

Senior Data Scientist

Curriculim Vitae

Education

  • Ph. D. in Sciences, December 2018
    Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
    Concentration in genomic data wrangling, analysis, and interpretation for sperm-specific proteins involved in fertilization
    Relevant Coursework: Advanced R and Statistical analysis, Statistics, Parallel and Programming optimization, Data interpretation and reproducibility

  • M. Sc., in Sciences, 2012
    Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
    Concentration in genomic data wrangling, analysis, and interpretation for sperm-specific proteins involved in fertilization
    Relevant Coursework: Python programming and Statistics

  • B. Sc. in Sciences, 2009
    Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos
    Relevant Coursework: Mathematics, Physics and programming

Work experience

  • Data Scientist and Data Engineer, Bank Covalto (Before Credijusto). Ciudad de México, México. April 2021 - present
    • Tools and Languages: Python, GCP, git, SQL
    • Models implementation from decision science team
    • Main activities in the role: Managing the process from business decision science to the code implantation squad, in order to deployed the models in to production.
  • Operational Data Analyst Leader, Cornershop by Uber. Ciudad de México, México. March 2020 - April 2021
    • Tools and Languages: OracleSQL, Pyhton, Tableau, Looker
    • Generation the major pilots on Mexico City, to reduce time, shopper costs and bags usage.
    • Generation of reports for principal OKRs for shopper operation.
    • Main activities in the role: Managing data analyst, supervasing data integration and data quality, also interpreting the data and results in order to make some operational decisions.
  • Data Scientist, Arca Continental, Monterrey. Nuevo León. México. January 2019 - March 2020
    • Tools and Languages: Scala, SQL, Spark, sparkR, pySpark, Azure DevOs, TFS, Delta.
    • Leading the main project about portfolio optimization in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
    • Modeling documentation to answer the fundamental question, analyzing the data and collecting important information.
    • Coordinating the development of the pilot and creating the key performance indicators for further evaluation.
    • Main activities in the role: Data profiling, Data integration, Data importation, and Data interpretation, developing analytic technologies, including machine learning and predictive modeling.
  • Doctoral stay,Molecular and Genomic Evolution Laboratory, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. May - July 2016
    • Tools and Languages: R, python, UNIX/Linux utility user, Bash scripting.
    • Evolutionary analysis of the sperm-specific Na+/H+ exchanger and the soluble adenylyl cyclase of Metazoa and non-Metazoa species.
    • Pseudogenization analysis of the sperm-specific Na+/H+ exchanger of mouse.
    • Coevolution analysis between the sperm-specific Na+/H+ exchanger and the soluble adenylyl cyclase of Metazoa species.
  • Secretaría de Educación Pública Mexico City, Mexico. Aug 2010 – Dec 2010
    • Reviewing the contents of textbooks Sciences III with emphasis in Chemistry for high school.
    • Deliverying reports in which the review process as well as the attachment of different books to study programs of the SEP (Secretaría de Educación Pública) and the 385 agreement detailing.

Skills

  • Computer skills:
    • Bash scripting
    • UNIX/Linux utility user
    • Databricks.
    • Programming languages: R, Python, Scala, SPARK, SQL and git TFS
    • IDEs: Microsoft azure, AWS, Gitkraken, VisualStudio
  • Statistical skills:
    • Parametric and non-parametric statistics
    • Statistical test like Type I error, Type II error, ANOVA, etc
    • A/B test, logistic regression, random forest, etc
    • Data Analysis: Clustering, significance data determination, quality data determination etc

Awards

  • Banco Santander - TrepCamp 2014 award
  • Falling walls Berlin 2016 award
  • Sistema Nacional de Investigadores - CONACYT 2019

Principal training

  • Certification in Customer/Partner Introductory Learning. Databricks Academy. 2020.
  • Cloud Computing. Google Active. 2020.
  • Diploma in financial education. Comisión nacional para la protección y defensa de los usuarios de servicios financieros. December 2019.
  • Data science: Probability. Harvard University. September 2019.
  • Course of “Advance R focused on Bioconductor”. Talleres de bioinformática. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. August 2018.
  • Advance course of high level computational skill in parallelization and optimization in programming “Escuela de computación de alto rendimiento”. Buenos Aires Argentina. August 2016.
  • Course of “Galaxy: RNA seq and Chip seq”. Talleres de bioinformática. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. August 2016.
  • Theoretical symposium on “Bioinformatics”. Secretaría de Ciencia e Innovación tecnológica. Estado de Morelos. 2016.
  • A theoretical and practical course in Python. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. August 2016.

Publications

Talks

Teaching

Service and leadership

  • Currently signed in to 4 different slack teams
    • Bioc-community
    • Bioinformatic software development community
    • Hobby projects with friends
    • Personal projects

Additional training

  • Resident as student the in simulation in silico laboratory. Dra. Nina Pastor. Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos. January-May 2006.
  • English course for Kent University. Summer 2006
  • Theoretical-practical workshop of Molecular Biology. Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Morelos-México. Summer 2006.
  • Theoretical-practical workshop of Biochemistry. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelos-México. Summer 2006.
  • Theoretical-practical Workshop of Genetics. Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Morelos-México. Winter, 2006
  • Theoretical-practical workshop Cellular Biology. Instituto de Biotecnología. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Morelos-México. January-July 2007.
  • Theoretical-practical International course “Cautivery reproduction: An alternative for the preservation of ornamental and birds”. Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Morelos-México. August 2008.
  • Theoretical-practical workshop of Developmental Biology. Instituto de Biotecnología. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Morelos-México. Summer 2008.
  • Japan-Mexico workshop on “Pharmacobiology” and “Nanobiology”. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México-México. 25-27 February 2008.
  • Theoretical-practical workshop of Advanced microscopy. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Enero-Febrero 2010.
  • Course theoretical-practical of simFCS. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. May 2014.
  • Advance course of entrepreneurship TrepCamp. Silicon-Valley California. Summer 2014. </div>