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Dylan Castillo

Co-founder, Forward Deployed Engineer

Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain · 1 connection

Iwana Labs

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About

Hey there 👋 I'm the founder of Iwana Labs, a small consulting firm through which I offer freelance services as an AI Engineer and Data Scientist. For the last eight years, I've been helping businesses get value from their data. I've worked for organizations like Deliveroo, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), the European Commission, and the Olympics. Check the testimonials section, if you're curious about my work there. Some past projects include: - Using Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance the user onboarding of a product - Enhancing products through chatbot systems with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) - Segmenting millions of users for marketing and personalization purposes - Increasing users' engagement rate by providing personalized content - Identifying the most valuable users for marketing campaigns - Computing and optimizing CLTV by understanding user's behavior These are some of the ML and AI topics I'm most familiar with: - LLMs (e.g., ChatGPT, GPT-4/3.5, Mistral, LLaMA) - NLP (e.g. Sentiment Analysis, Text Similarity, Topic-modeling) - Information Retrieval (e.g. Elasticsearch, Opensearch, Qdrant, Jina) - Supervised learning (e.g. XGBoost, Random Forests, SVM, Neu

Experience

Founder, Data Scientist & AI EngineerIwana Labs
Mar 2021
Data Science InstructorNuclio Digital School
May 2021 to May 2026
AI EngineerREMATIQ
Mar 2024 to Sep 2024
AI EngineerAwin Global
Jul 2023 to Oct 2023
Senior Data ScientistDeliveroo
Aug 2025 to Jun 2026
Data ScientistDeliveroo
Sep 2024 to Dec 2024
Data ScientistDeliveroo
Jun 2021 to Jul 2022
NLP EngineerEuropean Commission
Mar 2021 to May 2021
Founder in ResidenceEntrepreneurs First
Sep 2022 to Jan 2023
Quantitative AnalystAllianz
Oct 2016 to Dec 2017
ConsultantÁlamoConsulting
Nov 2015 to Sep 2016
Intern, Department of Economic ModelsBanco Central de Venezuela Basic company page — company details not listed yet
Oct 2014 to Feb 2015
Teaching AssistantUniversidad de Los Andes
Jun 2012 to Jul 2014

Education

Udacity
Data Engineer Nanodegree
2019 to 2020
Afi Global Education
Master Quantitative Finance
2015 to 2016
Universidad de los Andes (VE)
Bachelor's degree Economía
2010 to 2015