Sebastian (Seba) Santibanez
Associate Director - Advanced Technologies Group at SoftServe- Claim this Profile
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LinkedIn User
You will be hard pressed to find a more creative and technically proficient Data Scientist than Seba. Seba has delivered at a high level on his consulting engagements, so high that they pull him into additional efforts to use his brilliant mind. If I need to build an A team for a complex and matrix-ed client, this is the guy that I want by my side to help navigate. In addition to his curious mind, he is a strong leader who can guide a team under duress. I look forward to working with and partnering with Seba on any consulting engagement.
Robert N.
If data is an art, Seba is a master artist. I had the great honor to work closely with him for several years on data products and management. On every occasion, when we were analyzing data or designing the product, he was able to quickly identify the interesting features and complexities of the problems and was impressively able to present multiple perspectives to facilitate comprehension. It was always quite apparent that his passion for working with and thinking about data greatly influenced his success leading the data team. While his intelligence, sense of humor, and engaging nature help govern his soft-skills with his team. I highly recommend Seba for any data sciences role.
LinkedIn User
You will be hard pressed to find a more creative and technically proficient Data Scientist than Seba. Seba has delivered at a high level on his consulting engagements, so high that they pull him into additional efforts to use his brilliant mind. If I need to build an A team for a complex and matrix-ed client, this is the guy that I want by my side to help navigate. In addition to his curious mind, he is a strong leader who can guide a team under duress. I look forward to working with and partnering with Seba on any consulting engagement.
Robert N.
If data is an art, Seba is a master artist. I had the great honor to work closely with him for several years on data products and management. On every occasion, when we were analyzing data or designing the product, he was able to quickly identify the interesting features and complexities of the problems and was impressively able to present multiple perspectives to facilitate comprehension. It was always quite apparent that his passion for working with and thinking about data greatly influenced his success leading the data team. While his intelligence, sense of humor, and engaging nature help govern his soft-skills with his team. I highly recommend Seba for any data sciences role.
LinkedIn User
You will be hard pressed to find a more creative and technically proficient Data Scientist than Seba. Seba has delivered at a high level on his consulting engagements, so high that they pull him into additional efforts to use his brilliant mind. If I need to build an A team for a complex and matrix-ed client, this is the guy that I want by my side to help navigate. In addition to his curious mind, he is a strong leader who can guide a team under duress. I look forward to working with and partnering with Seba on any consulting engagement.
Robert N.
If data is an art, Seba is a master artist. I had the great honor to work closely with him for several years on data products and management. On every occasion, when we were analyzing data or designing the product, he was able to quickly identify the interesting features and complexities of the problems and was impressively able to present multiple perspectives to facilitate comprehension. It was always quite apparent that his passion for working with and thinking about data greatly influenced his success leading the data team. While his intelligence, sense of humor, and engaging nature help govern his soft-skills with his team. I highly recommend Seba for any data sciences role.
LinkedIn User
You will be hard pressed to find a more creative and technically proficient Data Scientist than Seba. Seba has delivered at a high level on his consulting engagements, so high that they pull him into additional efforts to use his brilliant mind. If I need to build an A team for a complex and matrix-ed client, this is the guy that I want by my side to help navigate. In addition to his curious mind, he is a strong leader who can guide a team under duress. I look forward to working with and partnering with Seba on any consulting engagement.
Robert N.
If data is an art, Seba is a master artist. I had the great honor to work closely with him for several years on data products and management. On every occasion, when we were analyzing data or designing the product, he was able to quickly identify the interesting features and complexities of the problems and was impressively able to present multiple perspectives to facilitate comprehension. It was always quite apparent that his passion for working with and thinking about data greatly influenced his success leading the data team. While his intelligence, sense of humor, and engaging nature help govern his soft-skills with his team. I highly recommend Seba for any data sciences role.
Credentials
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Internet of Things: Business Implications and Opportunities
MIT Sloan School of ManagementApr, 2022- Nov, 2024 -
Google Cloud Product Fundamentals
CourseraNov, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Fundamentals of Accelerated Data Science with RAPIDS
NVIDIAJul, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Getting Started With AI On Jetson Nano
NVIDIAJun, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Practical Predictive Analytics: Models and Methods
Coursera Course CertificatesJul, 2016- Nov, 2024 -
Data Manipulation at Scale: Systems and Algorithms
Coursera Course CertificatesMay, 2016- Nov, 2024 -
Computing for Data Analysis
CourseraOct, 2013- Nov, 2024
Experience
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SoftServe
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Associate Director - Advanced Technologies Group
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Nov 2020 - Present
- Advise clients on data strategies and innovation through advanced analytics. Industries include: Oil and Gas, Hospitality, Retail, Manufacture, etc.- Lead development teams of cloud engineers, data scientists, and IoT engineers in complex client engagements across the USA and Europe.- Collaborate with other senior leaders in deriving go-to-market strategies for products anchored in advanced analytics.- Develop partnerships and collaborations with lead cloud providers to equip clients with the best technologies available and the world-class thought leaders.
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Slalom
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Business Consulting and Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Solutions Architect - AI Solutions
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Jul 2019 - Nov 2020
• Create solutions for Fortune 500 clients in the areas of computer vision, AIoT, and cloud adoption.• Partner with sales teams, executives, and technical leaders to identify pain points and devise offerings in Data Science and AI. • Develop case studies, research papers, and other technical material for conferences, trade shows, and for business engagements. Mentor young professionals. • Create solutions for Fortune 500 clients in the areas of computer vision, AIoT, and cloud adoption.• Partner with sales teams, executives, and technical leaders to identify pain points and devise offerings in Data Science and AI. • Develop case studies, research papers, and other technical material for conferences, trade shows, and for business engagements. Mentor young professionals.
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Diversey
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United States
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Chemical Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Lead Data Scientist
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Aug 2018 - Jul 2019
• Strategize with customers and internal stakeholders the development of business-enhancing data products, from business needs to technical feasibility. Work includes development of data products for multi-million dollar key accounts including fortune 100 retailers and facility management.• Lead the data science practice and the development of new digital business opportunities across divisions including technical customer service and food-safety audits.• Develop cross-platform analytic products, from inception to prototype, in areas including: food safety and hygiene management, floor care, customer service, etc.• Manage off-shore data science team in the development of analytics dashboard for the management of IoT-connected equipment.
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Sealed Air Corporation
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United States
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Packaging and Containers Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Data Scientist - Machine learning expert
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Jun 2017 - Aug 2018
• Design and development of commercial data products: KPI conceptualization, algorithm development, prototyping and deployment. Work includes: data simulation of IoT sensors; early breakage detection system for specialized machinery, machine maintenance forecasting system, fleet optimization and economic savings estimation, among others.• Instrumental in high impact, multi-million euro contracts with a large retailer in the UK and the world leading BSC provider, for the sales of IoT-connected cleaning machinery and associated analytics dashboard.• Leader of analytic developments in food safety management and cleaning audits oversight for some of the world largest retailers including pharmacies, quick service restaurants and supermarkets.• Partnership development with niche data science teams: finding, screening and onboarding boutique data science partners in the areas machine learning, dashboard development, and deep learning. Technical leader and manager of data science teams for algorithm development, prototyping, dashboarding and deployment.• Design base architecture for analytics on machine and business data: Data lake design, relational database design, analytics platform for quick prototyping, analytics development environment.• Management of software development team for application development, ETL automation, data wrangling, scaling and deployment.
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Spatially Health
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Spatial Data Scientist
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Aug 2011 - Jun 2017
• Chief architect of the analysis tools implemented in the relocation application AboutPlace.com: Full stack vector and raster spatial analysis, multivariate analysis, spatial statistics, visualization.• Prototyping of spatial analysis tools implemented in the business location analysis tool spatially.com: TB size GPS data analysis, spatial clustering, pattern analysis with machine learning.• Big data analysis in the environments Spark, Hive (HUE), and crate.io• Data analysis using spatial and non-spatial methods such as GLS, GAM, random forests, SVM, (Bi) Clustering, Spatial Clustering (DBscan), etc.• Assessment of datasets. Feature engineering from a multitude of sources including public datasets and private vendors.
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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Germany
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Doctoral Researcher
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2014 - Dec 2015
• Spearhead a joint research project between the faculties of computer sciences and geography on machine learning applied to spatial analysis. Emphasis on combination of spatial/machine learning algorithms for the analysis of the human-environment system.• Publications linked to this project include: A comparison of machine learning and spatial algorithms for regression of spatial data. An application of machine learning for the prediction of rental prices.• Conference presentations linked to this project include: Geocomputation (Dallas, TX – May 2015) and AGILE (Lisbon, Portugal – June 2015)
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Geographic Analyst
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Mar 2008 - Dec 2008
Geospatial field data collection using GPS Omnistar + Video camera mobile survey system.Interpretation and geocodification of field data for the creation of navigation maps. Geospatial field data collection using GPS Omnistar + Video camera mobile survey system.Interpretation and geocodification of field data for the creation of navigation maps.
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SAF
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Armed Forces
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500 - 600 Employee
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GIS Analyst
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Jun 2007 - Mar 2008
Quality control and correction of digital cartographic information.Creating digital elevation models from digital maps and SRTM data.Compiling multi-source data to create aeronautical charts. Quality control and correction of digital cartographic information.Creating digital elevation models from digital maps and SRTM data.Compiling multi-source data to create aeronautical charts.
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Agricultural and Livestock Service of Chile (SAG)
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Chile
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Government Administration
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700 & Above Employee
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GIS Analyst
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Apr 2004 - May 2007
Digital image processing: geometric correction, filtering, enhancement, classification, mosaicking, for land use analysis.Spatial analysis: 3D analysis, geostatistical analysis, network analysis, geoprocessing.Map production; creation of orthophotos, DEMs, DTMs; database production; digitization of map features; creation of metadata.Management, quality control, correction and compilation of cartographic data and multi-source information for the creation of an on-line GIS service. Integration CAD → GIS.
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Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana
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Chile
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Instructor
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Jul 2006 - Apr 2007
Lecturer and laboratories of courses “Map projections I” & “Map projections II”.Researcher “GITs and their inclusion in teaching of Geography”. PAIGH project. Lecturer and laboratories of courses “Map projections I” & “Map projections II”.Researcher “GITs and their inclusion in teaching of Geography”. PAIGH project.
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Education
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2017 - 2018
Harvard Extension School
Professional Graduate Certificate, Data Science -
2014 - 2015
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geoinformation (Unfinished) -
2009 - 2011
Universidade Federal do Paraná
Master's Degree, Geodesy -
1999 - 2004
Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana
Bachelor's Degree, Cartography -
2014 -
University of California, Irvine
Certificate - Unfinished, Predictive Analytics -
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