David Lara Arango Ph.D

Chief Engineer | Top 1% mentor | AI-Data-Cloud-Software Engineer | Expert advisor | 80+ successful mentorship cases in various platforms
Turning tech curious into tech professionals and tech professionals into experts with fully customized plans
Norway 5.0 (53 reviews) Active today Usually responds in a few hours
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$530 / month

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4 calls per month (45min/call)

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Hi there! I am multilingual Chief Engineer in the areas of Data Science, ML-Data and Software Engineering with over 13 years of experience in data science, data analytics, software engineering, artificial intelligence and data mining. I have mentored dozens of people from fresh beginners to experienced professionals, to C-level executives. I hold a Ph.D in systems engineering and computational game theory.

I have worked as a consultant in many industry sectors (e.g. Insurance, energy, telecom, banking, shipping, fishing, media and many others). I have also produced multiple scientific publications and presentations where I have dissemitated my work in several international conferences. At the moment, I am working at Atea AS (One of the largest tech services suppliers in Europe), where I lead and take part in many projects that aim to strengthen and solidify Atea value creation proposal to its clients, both in the public and private sectors.

I personally love to mentor students who are committed, passionate, driven and creative when it comes to solving problems. Please feel free to reach out if there is anything you are wondering about (P.S. As previously mentioned, I am multilingual :) please feel free to reach out in English, Spanish, French, Norwegian, Swedish or Danish)

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What mentees say

Enri

Enri

5 out of 5 stars

Pro Plan · 
7 months

David has been a great mentor, guiding me through the start of my freelance career and helping me work with a tech stack that includes Matillion ETL and Snowflake. He has also been a big help with my startup, Hylia.io, which is building a simple, multi-platform dashboard app that works as a virtual lifecoach and mentor, using gamification to keep users motivated. We meet twice a week, and those sessions are always fun. David has a good sense of humour and knows how to make me feel comfortable. His IT knowledge is impressive, and he always points me in the right direction and keeps me motivated. I'm really excited about adding AI and LLM features to my app. David knows a lot about these topics, as well as data engineering, which will help us build the right features. His advice is invaluable, and I couldn't ask for a better mentor.

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Enri

Enri

5 out of 5 stars

David is an excellent mentor. He listens attentively, genuinely cares, and puts your mind at ease. He’s skilled at breaking down complex problems and communicates clearly and effectively. His ability to convey a lot with few words is especially impressive. David maintains a personal touch, adapts his approach to individual needs, and shows a strong appreciation for diversity. He has guided me through my questions about Snowflake, Data Engineering, and DataOps, providing clear explanations every step of the way. Additionally, David is committed to helping me achieve my personal goals and even suggests contributing to writing my online e-book about Data Engineering. I’m looking forward to many more sessions with David as my mentor. I have full trust that the outcomes will be successful.

Jacob

Jacob

5 out of 5 stars

Lite Plan · 
6 months

Working with David has been great. He has a deep knowledge of machine learning which has been invaluable in both developing my machine learning knowledge from scratch and providing guidance on the project that I am currently working on. Despite having significant time differences, David has always been prompt answering any questions I have and bouncing ideas off of.

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Jacob

Jacob

5 out of 5 stars

Working with David thus far has been excellent. He has provided materials and tasks that have enabled me to get quickly up to speed with the foundations of machine learning providing a sufficient level of challenge with each task. Additionally he is very response and proactive with any questions that I have. I look forward to what the future holds.

Joshua

Joshua

5 out of 5 stars

Standard Plan · 
8 months

Thanks for the expertise and mentorship! This accelerated my personal project dramatically and without David I would have given up a long time ago

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Joshua

Joshua

5 out of 5 stars

David continues to excell at providing sage guidence in the areas of AI, NLP and cloud development. Would fully recommend his mentorship to anybody looking to upskill. Thanks to him, I will soon have a working MVP, and I continue to impress my colleagues in my regular day-to-day job as a software engineer.

Joshua

Joshua

5 out of 5 stars

David has been a fantastic mentor in the AI/NLP/LLM/knowledge graph space. He also has excellent knowledge of Azure cloud services, and keeps me motivated towards reaching the goals of my learning as well as my project. I'd highly highly recommend David to anybody looking to enter the AI space and to upskill. Thanks David!

Joshua

Joshua

5 out of 5 stars

David has been helping me to bridge my knowledge gaps around web application microservices, as well as AI/NLP entity recognition and text generation. My motivation for mentoring was to help me get my personal project off the ground, as well as talking about technical challenges at work. He's been super useful and is always attentive to my project's specific needs. He's helped to really speed up development work. Definitely recommend!

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