curriculum vitae
Christopher Manzano Vimos
Data Scientist & AI Engineer · Madrid, Spain
Data scientist and AI engineer with end-to-end ownership of production AI systems: architecture, key technical decisions, deployment and operation. Nearly four years shipping ML, NLP and Generative AI for clients in energy, insurance, SaaS, legal tech and medical imaging (US DoD-funded research). Experienced deploying open-source LLMs on private infrastructure and building agentic pipelines with LangChain and LangGraph. Outside client work I design, build and operate my own AI products end to end at manapple.dev.
Experience
AI & Machine Learning Engineer · AI Consultant · WhiteBoxML
Madrid · Sept 2022 — PresentEnd-to-end technical ownership of production AI systems for enterprise clients: architecture, delivery and functional leadership. Coordinated and mentored engineers, defining quality standards for ML, NLP and GenAI systems built for scalability, maintainability and business value.
Iberdrola — renewable-energy forecasting (AWS)
- Designed distributed ML pipelines forecasting output for 200+ renewable plants across the US, Spain and the UK, ingesting 2 TB of data daily.
- Built ingestion and normalization of meteorological data from ECMWF, GFS and WRF, engineered for reproducibility and robustness in production.
Intermundial — LLM claims automation
- Architected LangChain/LangGraph pipelines for hierarchical document classification and information extraction, reaching over 90% accuracy on identity fields (DNI, NIE, passport).
- Built an LLM-as-judge evaluation framework and deployed open-source LLMs on private infrastructure under data-privacy constraints.
Nexudus — predictive models & GenAI (SaaS)
- Churn-prediction and occupancy-forecasting models driving retention, pricing and capacity decisions.
- Led the Generative-AI workflows behind automated content for the Flexspace Observatory blog.
Bid Genius — LLM assistant for public tendering
- Early-stage build of a proprietary LLM tool for assisted generation of tender documentation — solving long-document coherence and context management.
JOT Internet Media — NLP keyword classification
- Multi-stage hierarchical classifier based on RoBERTa for Google Ads keyword ranking, fine-tuning Hugging Face models on digital-marketing data.
Fen (US Department of Defense) — medical AI research
- Computer-vision models for hernia detection, vertebral segmentation and scoliosis/lordosis detection to support radiologists, delivered as a clinical web application.
Education
M.Sc. in Language Technologies (NLP) · UNED
2025 — PresentB.Sc. in Data Science & Engineering · Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
2019 — 2023Thesis: Reinforcement Learning in Portfolio Management — a Soft Actor-Critic agent over a TCN encoder, benchmarked on 37 years of S&P 500 data. Read it →
42 Madrid · Fundación Telefónica
2021 — 2022Intensive, project-based software-engineering program focused on autonomy and technical judgment.
Skills
GenAI & NLP
ML & Deep Learning
MLOps & Cloud
Leadership
Languages
Spanish — Native
English — Full professional (Trinity ISE II)
French — Basic