CTO & Co-Founder at WhiteBox, where I lead a 25-engineer team building AI solutions across 50+ projects in 5 countries. I also co-founded DataMarket, a Data-as-a-Service platform processing 15M+ data points monthly. Industrial Engineer (MSc) and MBA, building in the AI and data space since 2015.
CTO & Co-Founder at WhiteBox · AI consultancy, 25 engineers, 50+ projects, 5 countries
CDO & Co-Founder at DataMarket · DaaS platform, 15M+ data points/month
Partner & Investor at FEN Technology · Deep-tech R&D consultancy
Before WhiteBox
I worked on energy prediction models for wind farms, NLP engines that converted natural language to SQL, and marketing analytics at a firm later acquired by BCG. I also taught as Lead Data Analytics Instructor at Ironhack, training 100+ students with a 95% NPS.
My day-to-day sits at the intersection of ML engineering, data infrastructure, and business strategy. Python, PyTorch, LLMs, MLflow, Airflow, across AWS and GCP.
NLP, Computer Vision, Generative AI, MLOps. We've deployed AI across energy, telco, retail, and FMCG for clients like Vodafone, El Corte Inglés, and Mahou San Miguel.
I write about production AI, building data businesses from Europe, and what actually works when deploying ML systems at scale. In our experience, the hard part is rarely the model.
Topics I come back to:
- Production AI · Deployment patterns, monitoring, human-in-the-loop systems, AI agent governance
- Data as a Business · Building DaaS products, data engineering pipelines, subscription models
- AI Entrepreneurship in Europe · Scaling tech companies from Madrid, non-Silicon Valley perspectives
- Technical deep dives · Python, ML engineering, cloud infrastructure, self-hosting
- The definitive guide to Python virtual environments with conda 🐍
- The online courses you must take to be a better Data Scientist
- The Definitive Data Scientist Environment Setup
- COVID-19 quarantine reflections - day 7: how AI can help mitigate a global pandemic
- Lessons learned from 5 years doing Data Science
Read more at davidadrian.cc.