Hernan Rochon

ML Engineer & Data Scientist

hernan.rochon7@gmail.com · linkedin.com/in/hernan-rochon · github.com/HernanRochon664 · hernanrochon.com

Summary

Self-taught ML Engineer and Data Scientist with hands-on experience building end-to-end machine learning systems. Focused on production-ready pipelines, model interpretability, and measurable impact. Looking for a first professional role as a ML Engineer or Data Scientist.

Projects

BizSentinel - End-to-end ML platform for e-commerce customer intelligence

  • Detects at-risk customers, anomalous transactions and churn signals so SMBs can act before losing revenue - 97,896 customers scored
  • Implemented privacy-preserving ML with HMAC pseudonymization and differential privacy (ε≤5)
  • 127 unit tests, 82% coverage

Stack: Python, LightGBM, Kedro, MLflow, FastAPI, Docker

Hardware Pulse - PC hardware price intelligence system

  • Helps Uruguayan PC buyers time their purchase and find the cheapest retailer across GPUs, CPUs, SSDs and RAM
  • Three-tier entity resolution (exact → regex → fuzzy) reconciles inconsistent retailer listings into canonical SKUs, so comparisons are reliable

Stack: Python, BeautifulSoup, SQLite, RapidFuzz, Scikit-learn, Streamlit

Music Taste Recommender - Business-driven hybrid recommendation engine

  • Boosts music discovery without sacrificing relevance - raising genre diversity from 19% to 70% at a 0.89 relevance score, so listeners explore more of the catalog without churning out
  • Evaluated across 500 simulated users and 5 configurable business strategies

Stack: Python, Sentence-Transformers, Scikit-learn, Streamlit, Hugging Face

Skills

Machine Learning: Python, Scikit-learn, LightGBM, Keras, SHAP

MLOps & Pipelines: Kedro, MLflow, Prefect, Docker, FastAPI

Data Engineering: pandas, SQLite, PostgreSQL, BeautifulSoup, RapidFuzz

Frontend & Visualization: Streamlit, Dash

Certifications

  • Microsoft AI & ML Engineering Professional Certificate - Coursera (5 courses)
  • IBM AI Fundamentals
  • Udemy: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, MLOps, Web Scraping, Data Analysis & Visualization

Education

Secondary School Diploma, Scientific & Engineering track - 2025

Languages

  • Spanish - Native
  • English - B2 Cambridge International Certificate