Javier Artiles

Javier Artiles

I like to build things that learn 🧠 πŸ€–

2019 β€” now
Meta

Software Engineer, Meta

Menlo Park, CA β€” remote from Illinois since 2023

Applied ML on Facebook. The work is mysterious and important… but mostly FB feed relevance for connected and unconnected content, Public Figure & Creator distribution, and recommendation systems for UGC.

2016 β€” 2019
SmartNews

Software Engineer, SmartNews

San Francisco, CA

Backend for the document processing pipeline (AWS, Java Spring Boot microservices). Large-scale news recommendation in Spark/Scala on EMR.

2015 β€” 2016
Slice

Software Engineer, Slice Technologies

Palo Alto, CA

Hierarchical product categorization and brand detection, information extraction from product descriptions, and auto-scalable classification infrastructure.

2012 β€” 2015
Rakuten

Research Scientist, Rakuten Institute of Technology

Tokyo, Japan / New York, NY

R&D for the Ichiba marketplace: product matching and entity linking on e-commerce data, fuzzy matching for product taxonomies, multilingual product genre suggestion.

2005 β€” 2009
UNED

Ph.D. in Computer Science, UNED

Madrid, Spain β€” Dissertation: Web People Search

1998 β€” 2003
Universidad Complutense

B.A., Computational Linguistics β€” Universidad Complutense

Madrid, Spain β€” with honors