Hi, I’m Leon 👋
I’m the Director of the AI Innovation Lab at GBM, where I lead projects on personalization engines, recommender systems, embeddings, and experimentation layers for retail investing.
I also teach Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning at Universidad Panamericana and write about AI, data strategy, and innovation in El Financiero.
🧠 Focus areas
- Recommender systems & personalization
- Embeddings + retrieval systems
- MLOps & pipelines on AWS
- Experimentation layers and telemetry
- AI strategy, governance & adoption
📌 Selected work
- Personalization @ GBM: Designed the “Genome” projects for investor profiles, built recommenders (KNN, ALS, BM25 + embeddings), and launched the Mechagodzilla experimentation layer.
- Teaching: Developed and teach DL & RL courses at UP, including hands-on demos like market-making RL and VAEs.
- Writing: Regular columnist at El Financiero on how to create real business value with AI.