Diego Castañeda

Diego Castañeda is a highly skilled machine learning engineer with extensive experience in various roles at Shopify, including Staff Machine Learning Engineer and Senior Machine Learning Engineer, where responsibilities involve developing multi-modal LLMs, custom infrastructure for low-latency applications, and maintaining the Product Classification model. Previous roles include Lead Data Scientist at Agile*, where Diego focused on supervised learning tasks and built machine learning service applications, and PhD Researcher at Saint Mary's University, concentrating on the asteroseismological properties of rapidly rotating stars. Diego also possesses a solid educational foundation with a PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics, alongside a Master's and Bachelor's degree in the same field and Physics, respectively.