Sergio Llana Pérez

Sergio Llana Pérez has a diverse work experience, beginning with an internship at Accenture Analytics in 2016. Sergio then worked as a Software Engineer (Project Associate) at CERN, where they created a pipeline to collect data from different large compute systems and processed the data with Apache Spark. From 2017 to 2021, they were a Research Assistant at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, where they created a telemetry system for micro data centers managed by Openstack. In 2018, they joined FC Barcelona as Head of Sports Analytics and a Data Scientist in the Sports Analytics department, where they worked on data modelling and visualization of football data. Currently, they are the Director of the Postgraduate Course in Sports Analytics at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, and they are also a Data Scientist at Zelus Analytics.

Sergio Llana Pérez completed a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering at Universidad de Oviedo from 2012 to 2016. Sergio then went on to obtain a Master in Innovation and Research in Informatics from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya from 2017 to 2019. Additionally, they have obtained various certifications, including Introduction to TensorFlow for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning from deeplearning.ai in 2021, Big Data Analysis with Scala and Spark from EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) in 2020, Scala and Spark for Big Data and Machine Learning from Udemy in 2018, Graph Analytics for Big Data from Coursera in 2018, Data Science and Machine Learning with Python from Udemy in 2016, Certificate in Advanced English (CAE) from University of Cambridge in 2016, and First Certificate in English (FCE) from University of Cambridge in 2015.