Nestor Sanchez

Data Scientist at Lynceus

Nestor Sanchez has a strong background in data science and software engineering, with experience in various roles and companies. Nestor started their career at Mimoni Latin America in 2015 as a Data Modelling Scientist, where they collaborated on improving credit scoring models and designed a weekly KPI report for upper management. After that, they joined Sinnia as a Software Developer (Data Science) from August 2015 to August 2017. In 2022, Nestor worked at Toptal as a Data Science & Software Engineering contractor and at CellSight Services as a Data Engineer. Currently, they are working at Lynceus as a Data Scientist, starting in January 2023.

Nestor Sanchez has an extensive education history. Nestor obtained a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Statistics from The University of Edinburgh, graduating in 2022. Prior to that, they completed a Master of Science (MSc) in High Performance Computing with Data Science from the same university in 2018. In 2014, Nestor earned a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Applied Mathematics, specializing in Statistical Learning, from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México.

In addition to their academic degrees, Nestor has also obtained various certifications. In 2017, they received a certification for completing the course "Structuring Machine Learning Projects" from Coursera. In 2015, they earned a verified certificate for the course "Introduction to Big Data with Apache Spark" from edX. More recently, in 2020, Nestor became a Google Cloud Certified Data Engineer.

Overall, Nestor Sanchez has a solid academic background and a commitment to continuous learning, earning degrees and certifications in the field of statistics, computational science, and big data.

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  • Data Scientist

    January, 2023 - present