About

Andres Moreira is a technical sales professional, currently working at Zyte, a web data extraction company. He is also the co-founder of Knowral, a startup based in Uruguay that aims to organize, connect, and detect patterns in data obtained from the web, generating knowledge for leaders in politics, business, and companies to make better decisions. With over nine years of experience as a software engineer, Andres is a Python developer with extensive experience in languages such as C, Go, PHP, Java, Scala, and C#. Andres believes in helping people achieve their goals and motivates his team to provide excellent products and customer experiences. As a sales leader, he understands the importance of making decisions that benefit his team and customers. Besides his sales role, Andres enjoys being part of other teams to gain a better understanding of the company's operations. Despite his sales role, Andres is still an engineer at heart and enjoys learning and building things. He is currently learning about machine learning, deep learning, and data science, and has started building something great. Andres has experience in data processing using Python, Hadoop, Dumbo, Pig, Scala, and Java. He has also developed image processing and product cleansing pipelines for e-commerce sites using PIL and ImageMagick. Andres has led the development of an automatic scraping project using Scrapy, which handles millions of pages daily. He has also built an advertisement system similar to Google Ads using PHP and MySQL. Andres developed and led a business intelligence system for one of the top insurance companies in Uruguay, which was the biggest and the first solution using Microsoft Analytics Services 2005 at the time. Andres has a Full Stack Web Developer Nanodegree from Udacity and a degree in Computer Engineering from Universidad de la Republica. He is proficient in SQL, Python, PHP, MySQL, image processing, deep learning, dotNET, Scala, Java, ML, Hadoop, web, and software engineering. Andres has relevant experience of 13.87 years and is an open-source enthusiast, with his work available on GitHub.