Adria Moya

adriamoyaortiz@gmail.com

Quantitative engineer working as Data Specialist at Facebook (Ireland) with 3+ years of experience.

Focused on growing as a data scientist. Very independent but great team mate, problem solving lover, research addict and passionate about predictive models and AI. Achievements include creating credit risk models, natural language processing and text classification projects, scraping, some web development and multiple end-to-end projects. Experienced in ETL, data science and web and software development. Passionate about programming, travelling and surfing.

Experience

Data Specialist

Facebook
  • Building and supporting data infrastructure.
  • Execute quantitative analyses of data and trends to proactively deliver insights, define goals, and drive improvements.
  • Partner with multiple cross-functional teams including Product, Engineering, Design, Content, Operations, Privacy, and Data.
Oct 2018 - Present
Dublin, Ireland

Data Scientist / Consultant

Bluecap Management Consulting

Strategy and Risk Management consulting projects for top-tier European financial institutions.

  • Top 5 Spanish Bank:
    • Built a set of predictive models to rank companies based on their estimated probabilities of default and identify non-performing clients.
    • Designed interactive dashboards to monitor risk management.
    • Drafted an optimization plan to efficiently reallocate internal FTEs.
    • Performed high impact financial analyses.
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  • Led an NLP project based on classifying news articles to automatically generate a tailored, daily newsletter with a refined selection of financial and business-like news.
    • Implemented deep learning algorithms for text sentiment and classification.
    • Hosted a Kaggle competition to engage other colleagues to take part of the project in the modelling phase.
    • Responsible for overseeing an intern employee.
    • Deployed the application on AWS (Lambda / EC2 / RDS / CloudWatch ...).
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  • Taught internal training courses for incoming employees to improve their programming skills.
Sep 2015 - Oct 2018
Barcelona, Spain

Junior Specialist

University of California, Irvine

Co-worked with researchers at the Coastal Dynamics lab within an international research program aimed at developing and calibrating a wave-current model to predict coastal phenomena.

  • Tested and integrated various formulation approaches to the model and performed in-depth statistical analyses to determine its optimal settings.
Jan 2015 - Aug 2015
Irvine, California (US)

Education

University of California, Irvine (UCI)
Delft University of Technology (TUD)

MSc in Civil Engineering
Maritime Engineering - Numerical Methods Track
  • University of California, Irvine (US): Jul 2014 - Aug 2015
    • Dynamics of Cross-shore Thermally Driven Exchange
  • Delft University of Technology (NL): Aug 2013 - Jun 2014
    • Improving wave forecasting in the Catalan coast (MSc Thesis)
    • Courses: Decision Making in Networks, Finance Engineering, Ocean Waves, Coastal Dynamics, Ports and Waterways, Water Quality Modelling, ...
Aug 2013 - Aug 2015

Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)

BSc in Civil Engineering
Sep 2009 - Jul 2013

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
Databases
Web development

Projects

Python + Deep Learning + AWS

Build a financial newsletter with Deep Learning and AWS - Part 1

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Python + Deep Learning + AWS

Build a financial newsletter with Deep Learning and AWS - Part 2

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JUST EAT optimization

Exploring some optimization techniques from Google's OR-Tools with real JUST EAT data

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Interests

My aspirations are centered in growing as a data scientist / full stack engineer with a multidisciplinary knowledge, not only programatically but businesslike. I love solving problems and pushing myself to research and explore new ways of tackling challenges in an ever-changing environment.

I have taken lots of online courses to widen my knowledge (machine learning, deep learning, data visualization, web development, ...).

Apart from this, I enjoy most of my time being outdoors. In the winter, I don't think about it twice if there are waves and I can spend the day surfing. During the warmer months, I enjoy traveling and exploring the world.

When forced indoors, I am an aspiring chef, and I spend a large amount of my free time exploring the latest technolgy advancements in data science and artificial intelligence.

Awards & Certifications

  • Balsells Mobility Program - Senior Project at University of California, Irvine
  • 2015 Ocean Waves Workshop (University of New Orleans) - Presented thesis work (Improving Wave Forecasting in the Catalan coast)
  • Machine Learning - Coursera Certification
  • Deep Learning Specialization - Coursera Certification
  • Accenture Digital Health Hackathon 2018 (Barcelona, Spain)
  • TOEFL iBT (111/120)
  • Certificate in Advanced English (CAE)