AI Systems Architect · Director of Artificial Intelligence

Architect & Director of AI — 7+ years shipping AI in production.

Agentic AI · LLM infrastructure · RAG · Generative AI · Computational neuroscience foundation.

I design and ship autonomous agentic systems on top of LLMs: orchestration, persistent semantic memory, hybrid RAG over vector stores, generative image production, and cost/latency optimization. I blend rigorous scientific thinking with product-minded execution across single- and multi-agent architectures.

danigdominguez@gmail.com · Madrid, Spain

English — Full professional · Spanish — Native / bilingual

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Career arc
  1. Cajal · electrophysiology + interpretable ML
  2. Industrial ML · recsys · vision · finance stacks
  3. Multimodal generative platforms
  4. Agentic orchestration at scale
Research to agents arc Cajal ML GenAI Agents

Research → Agents

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Capabilities

Agentic AI

  • Single & multi-agent architectures
  • Task decomposition & agent routing
  • Persistent semantic memory design
  • Agent interfaces (advanced chat & non-chat copilots)

LLM infrastructure

  • Orchestration stacks
  • Latency / throughput / spend optimization
  • Production rollout & versioning

RAG & retrieval

  • Hybrid retrieval pipelines
  • Vector databases (OpenSearch & similar)
  • Embeddings pipelines (multimodal when needed)

Generative AI

  • Image generation in production
  • Multimodal classification & grounding
  • Fine-tuning for in-the-wild scenarios

Classical ML / vision

  • Recommendation & reinforcement-learning systems
  • CNN / NLP classification & anomaly detection
  • Fraud detection & synthetic-content detection pipelines

AI strategy & leadership

  • Team leadership (up to 5 AI experts) — player-coach model
  • AI roadmap & strategic planning
  • Cross-functional stakeholder communication
  • Science communication, oratory & technical writing

Experience

2025
2025-11 — Present · ~7 mo · Greater Madrid Area

Director of Artificial Intelligence

BillionHands · NextChance Invest

Designing and implementing autonomous LLM-backed agent stacks for structured knowledge acquisition and automated decision pipelines.

  • Agentic AI architectures (single- and multi-agent).
  • Orchestration kits: task decomposition, routing, durable memory contracts.
  • Hybrid RAG over vector backends with pragmatic eval harnesses.
  • Interfaces that feel like assistants, copilots, and internal tooling — not gimmicks.
  • Generative image models productionized alongside LLM infra.
  • Latency/cost knobs for inference and routing across providers.
  • Led a team of up to 5 AI experts — player-coach across research and engineering.
  • Up to 50% improvement in model cost, efficiency, and output quality through systematic optimisation.
  • Agentic AI
  • LLM
  • RAG
  • GenAI
2023
2023-07 — 2026-02 · 2 yrs · 8 mo · Madrid

Director of Artificial Intelligence

Multimarkts

AI strategy plus hands-on platforms for multimodal search, inspiration retrieval, contextual content.

  • Company-wide IA roadmap anchored to monetizable search moments.
  • Multimodal embeddings (image + text) at scale.
  • Operationalized OpenSearch + vector backends.
  • Generative image & motion experiments moved into production pipelines.
  • Reinforcement-learning inspired recommenders powering discovery.
  • Led a team of up to 5 AI experts; up to 50% model improvement in cost/efficiency/quality.
  • Multimodal
  • OpenSearch
  • RecSys
  • GenAI
2022
2022-03 — 2023-07 · 1 yr · 5 mo · Madrid

Lead Data Scientist

NoFakes

Fraud, synthetic-media, abusive-content detection backed by NLP + behavioral signals.

  • Semantic NLP classifiers tuned for nuanced policy targets.
  • Behavioural anomalies for detecting coordinated bot activity.
  • Synthetic-text attribution models (GPT-like generators).
  • End-to-end detection/classification pipelines for fraud ops.
  • NLP
  • Safety
  • Fraud
2022
2022 — 2023 · ~1 yr · Madrid

Technical Co-founder

Adsviu · NextChance Invest

Conceived and built the computer-vision MVP that originated the company — cookieless contextual advertising with proprietary AI.

  • End-to-end MVP development (computer vision + product contextualisation) — 0-to-1 validation.
  • Technology that enabled ×3 CTR, ×4 Brand Awareness for fashion and editorial clients.
  • Clients included a leading editorial group (14 outlets, +15M unique visitors).
  • Computer Vision
  • AdTech
  • 0-to-1
  • Founding
2021
2021-01 — 2022-03 · 1 yr · 3 mo · Madrid

Senior Data Scientist

BillionHands AI Fashion

Vision + NLP product models for garment understanding in the wild.

  • CNN + NLP garment recognition architectures.
  • Multimodal classification (visual + textual metadata).
  • Bayesian hyperparameter optimisation for latency-sensitive ensembles.
  • Product reached +500,000 downloads on Android (visual fashion search / shop-the-look).
  • Computer Vision
  • Multimodal
2019
2019-04 — 2020-12 · 1 yr · 9 mo · Madrid

Data Scientist

Dive.tech

Consulting-grade delivery of predictive & vision workloads.

  • Personalised recommender stacks (sequence + topic hybrids).
  • Industrial QA vision for defect spotting.
  • Person-identification workloads with privacy guardrails.
  • Streaming video analytics pipelines on AWS.
  • RecSys
  • Vision
  • AWS
2020
2020-02 — 2020-07 · ~6 mo · Madrid

Professor of Artificial Intelligence

Afi Escuela de Finanzas

  • Teaching CNN + RNN blocks inside the formative AI syllabus.
  • Teaching
2018
2018-03 — 2018-11 · ~9 mo · Madrid

Data Scientist · Financial Client

Novabase

  • Reinvestment RL strategies for discretionary desks.
  • NLP on scanned contractual packages.
  • Signature authenticity via CNN ensembles.
  • Finance
  • RL
  • CNN
2010
2010-10 — 2018-10 · ~8 yrs · Madrid

Science communication & broadcasting

Freelance / portfolio

  • >10k YouTube subscribers, >100k views on educational neurochemistry/neurophysics content.
  • Weekly columns via national publishers (La Razón & peers).
  • Science communication spanning blogs, national press, YouTube, and editorial books.
  • SciComm
2012
2012-02 — 2017-12 · ~6 yrs · Madrid

Predoctoral researcher · Computational neuroscience

Instituto Cajal · CSIC

  • Brain rhythmopathies modelling + EEG / field-potential pipelines.
  • Large-scale spike sorting + preprocessing at scale.
  • Interpretable ML for electrophysiology datasets.
  • ~17 publications, ~900 citations, including Nature Neuroscience (2015, ~278 citations).
  • Research
  • ML
2007
2007-07 — 2013-06 · ~6 yrs · Madrid

Stage magician & lecturer

Independent

  • Theatre illusions plus large-format kids shows sharpened narration and stage presence.
  • Oratory

Education

M.Sc. Biofísica · Electrofisiología

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid · 2011–2012

B.Sc. Bioquímica

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid · 2009–2011

Diplomatura · Química

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid · 2006–2009

Certifications

DeepLearning.ai / Coursera

  • Structuring Machine Learning Projects
  • Neural Networks & Deep Learning
  • Improving Deep Neural Networks
  • Sequence Models
  • Deep Learning Essentials

Publications & speaking

  • Matemáticas y Neurociencia
  • Neurociencia · Estructura y funciones del cerebro

SciComm spanning national press columns, long-form neuroscience explainers, and video essays.

~17 publications, ~900 citations — computational neuroscience at Instituto Cajal (CSIC).

  • Determinants of different deep and superficial CA1 pyramidal cell dynamics during sharp-wave ripples — Nature Neuroscience (2015, ~278 citations)
  • Distinct Mechanisms of Over-Representation of Landmarks and Rewards in the Hippocampus — Cell Reports (2020)
  • KCC2 Regulates Neuronal Excitability and Hippocampal Activity via Interaction with Task-3 Channels — Cell Reports (2019)
  • Altered Oscillatory Dynamics of CA1 Parvalbumin Basket Cells during Theta-Gamma Rhythmopathies — eNeuro (2016)

Beyond work

Earlier career as a touring stage magician honed storytelling, improvisation, and audience calibration — competencies that map cleanly to stakeholder comms today.

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