Career map · 2007 → today
Ricardo Ocampo
Lead AI Engineer — 12+ years shipping ML and LLM systems to production
Route chart · six legsEquirectangular · great circles
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The six legs
Leg 012007–2016
Guadalajara, Mexico
Tecnológico de Monterrey · student, then faculty
- BS Industrial Engineering, then an MS in Computer Science and AI with highest honors.
- Stayed on as lecturer and AI research assistant.
20.67° N · 103.35° W
Leg 022015–2016
Lausanne, Switzerland
EPFL · executive education, doctoral school
- Project manager of an Executive Master: ran its two-week Mexico module with ~30 lecturers.
- Completed the first year of a PhD.
46.52° N · 6.63° E
Leg 032016–2018
Guadalajara, Mexico
Wizeline, data scientist → Crabi, ML engineer
- Oil-flow optimization: 30 minutes down to half a second.
- Co-designed the pricing behind a car-insurance product.
20.67° N · 103.35° W
Leg 042018–2020
Dubai, UAE
Property Finder · senior data scientist
- Designed the official house price index for Dubai.
- ML image-quality pipeline scoring every listing photo.
25.20° N · 55.27° E
Leg 052020–2021
London, UK
Revolut · data scientist
- KYC precision 0.03 → 0.65 at the required recall, latency 30 s → under 2 s.
- Sanctions search shipped as a custom Elasticsearch plugin.
51.51° N · 0.13° W
Leg 062021–today
Guadalajara, Mexico
NuBank, lead ML engineer → independent consultant
- Led a 7-person CX AI team: +40% self-service, −28% customer contacts.
- Now consulting: agentic systems on Claude Code, an LLM valuation agent on a custom MCP server.
20.67° N · 103.35° W