LON 51.5°N · 2004–17 TYO 35.7°N · 2018–22 MAD 40.4°N · now

Jose María Salas
AI, from research to production.

Technology leader with 20+ years across applied AI, robotics and business intelligence, building teams and delivering AI, data and BI systems in London, Tokyo and Madrid.

available · remote worldwide / hybrid in the UK or Europe · British & Spanish citizen

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2 AI teams builtfrom scratch: robotics R&D in Tokyo, product engineering in Spain
50+ regulatory reportsdelivered for Credit Suisse, ultimately managing the Credit Risk Reporting team
1 patent pendingdigital sales system for shared art ownership (JP 2022-83057)
PhD in progressdistributed active SLAM & swarm robotics, Sapienza University of Rome

trajectory

MAD 40.4°N

Madrid · building with AI

2021 – now

Independent AI Consultant & Fractional CTO · remote / Madrid

Versorum (founder): commercial AI language-learning SaaS built end-to-end (LLM word-by-word alignment engine, AI tutor with live corrections, 220+ graded texts in 16+ languages) · live at versorum.com.

Revelify (co-founder & CTO): AI-based exercise analysis. Technical roadmap, pose-estimation prototypes (RGB-D + deep learning); recruited and led the engineering team. Launched the FitCam product.

NEO ONE ART (COO & interim CTO, Tokyo): patent-pending digital sales system; secured a ¥1M/month AI + blockchain consultancy contract · built a global art-market dashboard on 2.6M auction records.

Le Wagon Tokyo: lead teacher, Data Science & ML bootcamp (Python, scikit-learn, TensorFlow; MLOps with MLflow, FastAPI, Docker, GCP).

TYO 35.7°N

Tokyo · AI & robotics

2020 – 2022

Director of AI & Robotics / Chief Researcher · avatarin (ANA spin-off)

  • Built the AI & robotics team from scratch and owned R&D strategy for a Japanese Government Moonshot project on Cybernetic Avatar Technology.
  • Imitation learning for robotic manipulators; data-acquisition tooling in Vue.js/React/TensorFlow.js; analytics and dashboards for Sales, Marketing and Finance.
Jan – Apr 2020

Data Scientist / ML Engineer · ABEJA

  • Computer-vision defect detection for two major Japanese manufacturers (PyTorch, TensorFlow/Keras).
2018 – 2019

Robotics AI Engineer · Telexistence

  • Deep learning for robotic manipulation: glove-to-robot-hand control (DNN), grasp prediction from haptics (LSTM), large-scale object detection (~3,000 objects).
LON 51.5°N

London · data & finance

2012 – 2017

Lead BI Developer / Business Analyst (contracts) · Credit Suisse

  • Led a team of 11 developers delivering 50+ credit-risk regulatory reports, ultimately managing the Credit Risk Reporting team, working directly with Directors and MDs.
2007 – 2012

BI Technical Architect · independent consultant

  • Enterprise Business Intelligence design and delivery (SAP BusinessObjects) for SAP consultancy services and end clients.
2004 – 2007

Support Engineer, Critical Accounts · Business Objects (SAP)

  • Escalation point for the most critical enterprise accounts; debugged product issues down to code level.

toolkit

AI / ML

LLMs & generative AI · PyTorch · TensorFlow/Keras · computer vision · imitation & reinforcement learning

Engineering

Python · JavaScript/Vue.js · SQL · C++ · GCP · AWS · Firebase · ETL & data engineering

Data & BI

Power BI · AWS QuickSight/Athena · SAP BusinessObjects · Streamlit · live: art-market & Netflix dashboards · Art Insights Streamlit app

Leadership

Team building & mentoring · R&D strategy · product roadmaps · stakeholder management to C-level

education

2025 – nowPhD, Artificial Intelligence (distributed active SLAM, swarm robotics) · Sapienza University of Rome

2022MBA Essentials · London School of Economics

2017 – 2021MSc, AI and Robotics · Sapienza University of Rome, cum laude

1997 – 2003BA + MSc, Telecommunication Engineering · Alfonso X El Sabio University, Madrid