Hi! I'm David Suarez I like turning
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into
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that
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AI Cloud Engineer designing and shipping intelligent
systems, specialized in
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Portrait of David Suárez

01 / Career

Professional experience

Deloitte logo

Deloitte

Madrid, Spain

Oct. 2023 Present

  1. Senior AI Cloud Engineer

    Sep. 2025 — Present

    Work directly with clients to turn business needs into AI solutions, combining technical planning, architecture, and hands-on development while guiding teams in AI adoption.

    Explore impact Back to overview — Senior AI Cloud Engineer, Sep. 2025 — Present

    Selected impact

    • Led the development of an agent factory using AWS Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, building reusable blueprints with MCP and RAG integrations, enabling conversational deployment across AWS accounts.
    • Worked directly with clients to translate business challenges into actionable technical proposals, defining functional and non-functional requirements, breaking down implementation tasks, and establishing delivery roadmaps and timelines.
    • Built a production conversational RAG application for a client using Python, FastAPI, LangChain, and Amazon Bedrock, with OpenSearch retrieval and automated knowledge base synchronization, raising customer satisfaction by 150%.
    • Led the corporate-wide rollout of Claude Code for a major client in Switzerland, traveling on-site to establish development best practices and train over 200 engineers, driving org-wide adoption of AI-assisted development practices.
    • Built a Claude Code development harness integrating project context, specs, skills, and agents, increasing capacity-adjusted story points delivered per sprint by 40% compared with the pre-adoption baseline.
    • Built and deployed an agent in a Teams channel using Python and Claude Agent SDK, integrating Confluence via MCP to deliver source-backed answers, with execution limits and application logging, reducing time-to-answer from three days to one.
  2. AI Cloud Engineer

    Oct. 2023 — Aug. 2025

    Developed AI applications and cloud infrastructure across conversational AI, document automation, and predictive ML, from architecture design to production deployment.

    Explore impact Back to overview — AI Cloud Engineer, Oct. 2023 — Aug. 2025

    Selected impact

    • Developed a production AI interview simulator using Java and Amazon Bedrock, extracting structured information from CVs and job descriptions to generate adaptive questions, detect contradictions, and deliver personalized feedback, using Amazon Transcribe/Polly (STT/TTS) for voice integration and DynamoDB for conversation persistence.
    • Implemented a document automation system for an insurance client using Python, Amazon Textract, Bedrock and LangGraph, extracting invoice and policy data into DynamoDB and automating report generation, reducing completion time by 72%.
    • Defined reference architectures for microservices, serverless, and Generative AI applications within the Cloud Center of Excellence, reviewing AWS architectures, deployments, and security against Well-Architected principles, with architecture and optimization recommendations reducing cloud costs by an average of 7% across reviewed applications.
    • Built and deployed fraud detection models for a banking client using Python, XGBoost, CatBoost, and AWS SageMaker, enabling real-time inference through SageMaker Endpoints and improving fraud detection precision by 6%.
    • Built GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines to automate testing, Docker image builds and publishing to Amazon ECR, and Kubernetes deployments on Amazon EKS, with commit-based image tagging and approval gates for production releases.
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SoccerSolver

Madrid, Spain

Feb. 2025 Jul. 2026

  1. CTO & Founding Engineer

    Feb. 2025 — Jul. 2026

    Built SoccerSolver into an analytics platform used by top-flight football clubs as its first engineer and second company member, leading product development and building the engineering team.

    Explore impact Back to overview — CTO & Founding Engineer, Feb. 2025 — Jul. 2026

    Selected impact

    • Built SoccerSolver from concept to production as the first engineer and second team member, delivering an analytics platform used by three top-flight football clubs. Owned end-to-end development with Python, FastAPI, React, and TypeScript.
    • Delivered demos to 40+ professional football clubs, working directly with club executives and heads of analytics to translate customer needs into product requirements and iterative releases.
    • Hired and managed four engineers, establishing development planning, code reviews, technical documentation, and onboarding while remaining hands-on across the product.
    • Architected Google Cloud infrastructure and ETL pipelines processing 750M+ Wyscout data points, using Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, and Cloud SQL, with a 25+ table schema and automated deployments through Cloud Build and Artifact Registry.
    • Developed the mathematical foundations and production implementations of player valuation and performance models, validating predictions through backtesting and managing experiment tracking and model versioning with MLflow.
    • Supported the close of an €850K pre-seed round at a €7M pre-money valuation, leading technical due diligence discussions and translating product architecture and capabilities into business terms for investors.
    • Represented SoccerSolver at the 2026 MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, where the company was recognized as the best soccer startup, gaining visibility among top clubs, funds, and sports industry.

05 / Toolkit

Technology stack

AI & Agents

  • Claude
  • Ollama
  • Amazon Bedrock
  • Strands Agents
  • LangChain
  • LangGraph
  • Amazon SageMaker

Cloud & platforms

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • OCI
  • Google Cloud
  • Vercel

Languages

  • Python
  • Java
  • R
  • TypeScript
  • SQL
  • Bash

Web development

  • React
  • Node.js
  • FastAPI
  • Spring Boot
  • Astro
  • Tailwind CSS

Data

  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • OpenSearch
  • Airflow
  • pandas
  • NumPy
  • PySpark

Infrastructure & delivery

  • Terraform
  • Docker
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Kubernetes
  • GitHub Actions

04 / Selected work

Things I’ve built

02 / Background

Academic path

01 UGR logo

BSc in Computer Science

University of Granada

02 UGR logo

BSc in Mathematics

University of Granada

03 / Published work

Selected publications

01

ResearchGate · Scientific Paper

UK · Feb. 2026

Redefining Scouting Intelligence: A Quantitative Framework for Player Similarity and Tactical Fit in Soccer

Developed a scalable framework for objective player scouting and replacement, combining PCA, K-Means clustering and a hybrid distance metric across 750M+ data points to measure playing style and tactical fit.

02

ResearchGate · Scientific Paper

UK · Feb. 2026

Optimizing Free Transfers: A Multi-Criteria Utility Framework for Wage-Value Efficiency in Soccer

Introduced a data-driven model to evaluate out-of-contract soccer players as financial assets, measuring expected growth, contractual urgency and tactical fit, demonstrating significant outperformance over traditional approaches.

03

ResearchGate · Scientific Paper

UK · Feb. 2026

The Soccer Efficient Frontier: Balancing Profitability and Performance in Squad Optimization

Introduced the Return-on-Performance model, analyzing the top five European leagues from 2015 to 2024 to map the optimal balance between financial investment and sporting results, finding that 95% of clubs operate inefficiently.

04

University of Granada · Scientific Article

Spain · May. 2024

Multivariate Methods Applied to Genomic Data Analysis

Analyzed high-throughput genomic data using advanced multivariate mathematical techniques with R; and conducted a detailed study on the mathematical foundations of multivariate techniques and their use in genomic data processing.

05

Amazon · Book contribution

Sports Analytics in Python - Book Contributor

Contributor to the book Sports Analytics in Python, by Michael de la Maza, PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

06 / Credentials

Professional certifications

Amazon Web Services

AWS Certified Generative AI Developer – Professional

Issued: sep. 2026 · Expires: sep. 2029

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

Issued: jun. 2026 · Expires: jun. 2029

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

Issued: jun. 2025 · Expires: jun. 2028

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Issued: may. 2025 · Expires: jun. 2028

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AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate

Issued: abr. 2026 · Expires: abr. 2029

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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Issued: may. 2024 · Expires: jun. 2029

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AWS Certified AI Practitioner

Issued: jul. 2025 · Expires: abr. 2029

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Anthropic

Claude Certified Architect - Foundations

Issued: ago. 2026 · Expires: ago. 2027

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Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)

Issued: sept. 2024 · Expires: sept. 2027

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Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator (AZ-104)

Issued: feb. 2024 · Expires: feb. 2028

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Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer (AI-102)

Issued: mar. 2024 · Expires: mar. 2027

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Oracle

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Certified Architect Associate

Issued: oct. 2025 · Expires: oct. 2027

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Generative AI Professional

Issued: jun. 2024 · Expires: jun. 2026

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HashiCorp

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)

Issued: dic. 2024 · Expires: dic. 2026

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McKinsey & Company logo

McKinsey & Company

07 / More

Miscellany

More to come.

08 / Contact

Contact

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David Suárez Madrid, Spain