Unai Garay

About me

As a Senior AI Engineer specializing in Image and Natural Language Processing, I am dedicated to advancing AI solutions through continuous learning and innovation. I thrive in collaborative environments, contributing significantly to team success and fostering a positive work culture.

I find it instructing and entertaining to make side projects on my own, so make sure to visit my portfolio section down below!

When I'm not working, I'm either playing music or doing outdoor activities like bungee jumping, climbing, paddle boarding, etc ...

I also love photography, so make sure to check out my Instagram photography channel.

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Technical Skills

AI & Machine Learning

LLMs Generative AI NLP Computer Vision PyTorch Transformers Agents RAG

Engineering

Python FastAPI Docker Google Cloud Airflow C# / .NET Angular Mobile (React Native)

Research

Variational Autoencoders Spiking Neural Networks Ontology Integration Feature Engineering

Work Experience

Tekever

Senior LLM Engineer / Data Scientist
April 2025 - Present

Engineered an end-to-end data pipeline that automatically creates Jira tickets from Signal chats. Implemented a conversation clustering algorithm using semantic similarity and temporal analysis, leveraging LLMs to generate structured ticket data.

  • Python
  • Airflow
  • Docker
  • LLMs
  • Google Cloud Platform

Sorcero

Senior AI Engineer
March 2020 - 2025

Led AI R&D for a Natural Language Understanding platform for unstructured medical data. Key contributions: generative AI theme tagging, NER, summarization, recommendation systems, and a custom neural search engine with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Agents.

  • Python
  • NLP
  • PyTorch
  • SpaCy
  • Transformers
  • FastAPI
  • Docker
  • Google Cloud Platform

Accenture

Data Scientist
May 2019 - March 2020

Development of a tool that uses Data Analysis, Clustering, Topic Modelling and other NLP algorithms on problem descriptions from ticketing systems to improve ticket resolution.

Development of NLP tagging service to infer people's skills and interests for an employee selection tool.

  • Python
  • NLP
  • Scikit-Learn
  • NLTK
  • Spacy
  • Plotly/Matplotlib

Smartloto S.L.

AI Engineer
July 2018 - April 2019

Development of an end-to-end image validation system of lottery tickets using Deep Learning at scale on Google Cloud Platform, Android and IOS.

  • Python
  • Flask
  • Computer Vision
  • TensorFlow
  • Tensorflow Lite
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Android/Java
  • IOS/Swift
  • C#

Education

Valencian International University

MSC ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
2018 - 2019

Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence with a final grade of 8.55.

Technological University of the Shannon, Athlone Campus

Computer Engineering - Erasmus
2016 - 2017

Erasmus experience in AIT (Athlone Institute of Technology), Ireland.

University of Alicante

BSC COMPUTER SCIENCE
2014 - 2018

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, part of the High Academic Performance group. Achieved a final grade of 7.43.

Projects

  • Image Generation

  • Neural Search

  • Grocery Classifier

  • Fitness Tracker

About the Project

Guexit is an AI-driven web based guessing game where players compete using cards created with AI-generated art. The game combines creativity and deduction in an engaging multiplayer experience.

Key Features

  • Text-to-image generation using Transformer models
  • Interactive multiplayer card game
  • High-quality AI art generation
  • Scalable cloud architecture

Technologies Used

Angular .NET Python Transformers FastAPI Docker Azure

About the Project

A semantic document search engine that uses transformer models to understand the meaning behind search queries and find relevant documents.

Key Features

  • Semantic understanding of search queries
  • Context-aware document matching
  • Semantic Ranker
  • Multi-language support
  • Audio Transcription

Technologies Used

Python Haystack Streamlit Transformers Hugging Face Spaces

About the Project

A computer vision system that can identify and classify grocery products from images. The system uses deep learning to recognize products in images.

Key Features

  • Grocery Item Recognition
  • Streamlit Interface
  • Retrain Model in Seconds

Technologies Used

Python PyTorch Streamlit Computer Vision Hugging Face Spaces

About the Project

A modern fitness tracking app that helps users track workouts, monitor progress, and maintain their fitness journey. Built with React Native and Expo for a seamless cross-platform experience.

Key Features

  • Track workouts and exercises
  • Monitor progress over time
  • Log fitness activities
  • Customizable settings
  • Dark mode support

Technologies Used

React Native Expo TypeScript React Navigation Expo Router

Research & Patents

Research

Patents