Iván de Prado Alonso

Deep Learning & Big Data chef

In love with Deep Learning and Computer Vision. +10 years of experience working for/with startups, dealing with the greatest technical challenges at each.

About Me

I'm an inquisitive person. That curious spirit made me get involved in Startups, found a company, go deep on Big Data and distributed systems and study economy among other things.


At this moment I'm pretty interested on Machine Learning and specifically Deep Learning and Computer Vision.


Below I enumerate some of the achievements that I am most proud of.

Developed a vineyard yield prediction system

  • Camera, light and GNSS RTK integration on ATV for nightly photo capture with precise location. All coordinated and controlled with custom software.

  • Use of Deep Learning object detection and image segmentation models to isolate clusters on images.

  • Generation of a precise yield map.

Handling 4 trillion records dataset

  • Design and maintenance of Big Data infrastructure for an advertising network.

  • Design of the data architecture for the analytical panels making use of Splout SQL.

Founded two Open Source projects

  • Splout SQL is a Big Data database ready to serve big amounts of relational data withing sub-second latency.

  • With Tuple MapReduce we introduced a generalization of MapReduce paradigm by the use of tuples instead of key,value pairs. Pangool is an implementation of Tuple MapReduce for Hadoop.

Founded a Big Data company

  • Datasalt was pioneer of Big Data at Spain.

  • The company was a profitable business. You can read the company story here (Spanish).

Training people on Big Data

  • Designing and leading the Big Data Expert program at U-Tad university.

  • More than 130 professionals trained during that period.

  • Great graduate employability.