Fran Rodrigo

Professional career

Career, skills, and enterprise projects

699+

Academic citations

13 publications

International journals and conferences

9+ years

In the tech industry

T-Systems Iberia

Head of AI Engineering

Skills

AI & NLP

PyTorchTensorFlowTransformersHuggingFaceLLMsNLPRAGFine-tuningPrompt EngineeringAgentic AILangChainSemantic SearchText ClassificationSentiment AnalysisNamed Entity Recognition

Engineering

PythonTypeScriptJavaJavaScriptSQLNext.jsReactFastAPISpring BootNode.jsREST APIsGraphQLPostgreSQLMongoDBRedis

Cloud & MLOps

Azure AIAWSGCPKubernetesDockerCI/CDTerraformMLflowGitHub ActionsNginxLinuxServerlessVercelDigitalOcean

Data & Analytics

PandasPolarsNumPyScikit-learnJupyterData PipelinesETLVisualizationStatistical AnalysisExperiment Design

Teaching & Communication

Workshop FacilitationCourse DesignTechnical WritingPublic SpeakingHackathon MentoringExecutive Training

Leadership & Management

Team LeadershipAI StrategyAI GovernanceAgile / ScrumITILStakeholder ManagementMentoringTechnical RoadmapsVendor EvaluationCross-functional TeamsBudget Management

Certifications

Professional Cloud Machine Learning Engineer

Google Cloud · 2023

Deep Learning Specialization

deeplearning.ai · 2022

MLOps

Duke University · 2023

Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)

Microsoft · 2022

Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)

Scrum.org

ITIL 4 Foundation

Axelos

Experience

Head of AI Engineering & AI Chapter Lead

T-Systems Iberia

2022Present

Leading the Artificial Intelligence chapter at T-Systems Iberia. Corporate AI strategy definition, model governance, and enterprise solution delivery. Responsible for LLM evaluation and adoption, RAG architecture design, agentic systems, and MLOps pipelines. Managing cross-functional teams and liaising with technical and business stakeholders.

LLMsNLPRAGAgentic AIMLOpsAzure AIPythonAI StrategyAI GovernanceTeam Leadership

PhD Researcher

UNED — NLP & IR Group

2021Present

Doctoral research on automated media bias detection. Author of a systematic review published in Expert Systems with Applications (165+ citations). Creator of the MBBMD dataset, the first multimodal benchmark for bias detection in Spanish. LLM benchmarking (GPT-4, Claude, Llama) on bias detection tasks. Contributor to the Humanity's Last Exam paper published in Nature (483+ citations).

NLPMedia BiasPyTorchTransformersHuggingFaceLLMsResearchAcademic WritingExperiment DesignPython

AI Consultant

NewsGenie Inc.

2024Present

AI consulting for NewsGenie, focused on the design and development of NLP solutions for automated content moderation in media. Applying language models and classification techniques for detecting problematic content at scale.

NLPContent ModerationMedia Bias DetectionLLMsFine-tuningPythonAI Consulting

Associate Lecturer

EDIAE

20232024

Teaching in artificial intelligence, data science, and machine learning training programs. Course material and hands-on exercise design. Training in Python, NLP, deep learning, and LLM usage for technical and business profiles.

TeachingAIData SciencePythonDeep LearningNLPLLMsCourse Design

Senior Software Engineer

T-Systems Iberia

20172022

Development of cloud solutions and enterprise applications for private and public sector clients. Microservices architecture, REST API design, system integration, and DevOps. Technical leadership of development teams. Migration of monolithic applications to cloud-native architectures on AWS and Azure.

JavaSpring BootKubernetesDockerAWSAzureCI/CDMicroservicesREST APIsPostgreSQLAgile