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General Information

Full Name Renato Castro Cruz
Date of Birth 4th October 1998
Languages English, Spanish

Education

  • 2020
    BS. Engineering
    National University of Engineering, Lima, Peru
    • GPA 4.0
    • Dean's List in my faculty
    • Excellence Scholarship through the peruvian government for my undergraduate studies
    • 146th Anniversary University Recognition for Winning International Competitions in Data

Research and Teaching Experience

  • 2025-now
    Researcher
    GreenBridge Labs, Boston USA
    • Contributing to create an agent from scratch to help utilities companies in their Energy Transition.
    • We are backed by MIT Sloan Sustainable Initiative.
    • So happy to be here!
  • 2020-now
    Research Assistant in the PUCP Artificial Intelligence Group
    Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), Lima PE
    • Research Assistant in the Artificial Intelligence Group (IA-PUCP) under supervision of Dr. Cesar Beltran
  • 2019-2022
    Teaching Assistant in the Certified Courses Series of Artificial Intelligence Development
    Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), Lima PE
    • TA in Introduction to Python and Data Science
    • TA in Deep Learning on Time Series
  • 2018-2019
    Research Assistant in Information and Communications Technology Center
    National University of Engineering, Lima PE
    • Research Assistant in the Big Data Lab under supervision of Mg. Yuri Nunez

Industry Experience

  • 2024-now
    Regional Advanced Analytics Manager
    Castillo Hermanos, Guatemala GT
    • Leading the data engineering, machine learning and AI projects in the business unit of brewing and beverages in Cerveceria Centroamericana.
    • Developed Recommendation Systems, Gradient Boosting Models, Forecasting Models to improve the main KPIs of the business operations and sales.
    • Achieving almost ~$22MM in contribution margin of period 2024-2025
    • Applying digital agent Gemini and Copilot in the business operation
    • I am always looking for great talent. So we are hiring! Just email your CV to me rcastroc@pucp.edu.pe
  • 2022-2024
    Regional Advanced Analytics Leader
    Millicom International (TIGO), Panama City PA
    • Leading the analytics and machine learning projects to improve business operations
    • Achieving 800K users in the business fintech product generating a revenue of ~$4.5MM and 50K loans monthly
  • 2021-2022
    Data Scientist Sr.
    AB InBev, Lima PE
    • Applying machine learning and data analytics to improve the main business operations and sales KPIs
  • 2020-2021
    Advanced Analytics Jr.
    Pichincha Bank, Lima PE
    • Developed web application to improve the way of working of the wholesale banking.
    • Developed a web application to help the company to manage the pipeline for COVID-19 assistance credits allocation "Reactiva Peru" in clients (I loved this project!)
    • Applying data analytics to achieve the targets

Open Source Projects

  • 2020
    Computer Vision for Social Distancing on Nvidia Jetson Nano
    • This repository contains a computer vision system for real-time social distancing monitoring using YOLOv3 object detection and Bird's Eye View (BEV) transformation. The system detects people, evaluates if they respect a predefined minimum distance, and provides visual feedback with bounding boxes and a BEV plot.
  • 2020
    People Detection and Counting In/Out Line
    • A people detection using Yolo v3 and Deep Sort to count people who passes a certain line that delimits the entrance of a place. This program can count the people who get into the place or get out.

Honors and Awards

  • 2023
    • Community Competition Host Kaggle Award
  • 2022
    • 1st Place Kaggle DATATHON ENTEL 2022 - Challenge 2
  • 2021
    • 2nd Place Laboratoria Hackhathon
    • 1st Place BNP Paribas LATAM Data Science Challenge 2021
    • 1st Place Bancolombia Datathon 2020
  • 2020
    • 2nd Ab Inbev LATAM Brewing DataCup 2020
    • 1st Place Data Science Challenge LATAM BNP Paribas 2021
    • 1st Place Bancolombia Datathon 2020
  • 2019
    • 1st Place Data Talent Movistar 2019
    • 1st Place Pichincha Bank Datathon 2019

Academic Interests

  • Machine Learning & Deep Learning
    • Supervised Machine Learning Applications
    • Explainability Machine Learning
    • Computer Vision Applications
  • Generative AI
    • Reasoning Models
    • Small Language Models

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Trekking, Music, Playing piano or guitar, Gym, Tae-Kwon-Do