Computer engineer specializing in geospatial AI, computer vision, and cloud-native solutions. Currently leading R&D at Forestal Arauco, where applied AI has delivered measurable impact at industrial scale.
| 🏆 2 National Awards | Premio Chile PotencIA 2026 · Roberto Ovalle Aguirre |
| 🎓 MSc Computer Science | Universidad de Concepción |
| ☁️ 3 Google Cloud Certs | Digital Leader · ACE · Professional ML Engineer |
| 📍 Location | Chiloé, Chile |
| 💼 Experience | 5+ years in R&D (AI · GCP · Geospatial) |
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National AI Award — 1st Place, Large Enterprises Harvest quality management using drones + deep learning at Forestal Arauco:
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Instituto de Ingenieros de Chile Excellence award from Chile's Institute of Engineers recognizing outstanding engineering work. |
AI / Machine Learning
Cloud & DevOps
Geospatial
- 🎓 MSc. Computer Science – Universidad de Concepción (2019–2021)
- 🎓 BSc. Computer Engineering – Universidad de Concepción (2014–2019)
🔬 R&D Engineer — Forestal Arauco 2021 – Present
Leading AI, cloud, and geospatial projects. Built award-winning harvest quality system (Premio Chile PotencIA 2026).
🔬 R&D Consultant — Forestal Arauco 2019 – 2021
Computer vision algorithms and automated GIS workflows.
🌐 Independent Consultant 2019 – 2020
Web scraping and automated reporting on immigration news.
🖥️ Internship — Sistemas Modulares de Computación SpA 2018 – 2019
Shift management system with C# and SQL Server.
- 🛰️ Harvest Quality Management (Premio Chile PotencIA 2026) — Drones + deep learning, +37% quality, 60k+ m³ recovered.
- 🌈 Hyperspectral & Multispectral Image Analysis — Supervised classification of forest imagery.
- 🌳 LiDAR Data Analysis — Understory vegetation metrics from point clouds.
- ☁️ Cloud-Based ML Pipelines — Kubernetes + Argo Workflows on GCP.
- 🏞️ Geoprocess Automation — DEM correction, raster compression, optimized loading.
- 📑 Automated PDF Reporting — Multi-API data pipelines to production reports.
- 🌐 Immigration News Web Scraping — Structured datasets for geopolitical analysis.
⭐️ Open to collaborating on AI, geospatial data, and cloud solutions.
📍 Chiloé, Chile