Erick Alfaro
Resume

Twelve years of shipping.

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Full-stack data scientist with deep expertise across machine learning, large-scale data systems, and applied GenAI. End-to-end — from problem formulation to production deployment.

01 /Experience

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Staff Data Scientist

2019 — Present

Royal Caribbean Group

Data Scientist → Senior → Lead → Manager → Staff DS

  • Led growth of an internal Data Science & AI consultancy to 20+ members
  • Drove multiple GenAI initiatives — RAG, speech-to-text, entity extraction, enterprise chat app
  • Designed a customer-facing pre-cruise recommendation engine increasing revenue by 2.3% ($5M–$10M annually)
  • Managed a $10M+ ML lead-scoring pipeline improving conversion rates by 30%
  • Engineered forecasting frameworks for a 44-ship fleet
  • 2023 Circle of Excellence Award
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Data Scientist

2017 — 2018

Nextera Energy

  • Built time-series classification models for customer segmentation and energy rate optimization
  • Queried 100B+ energy records to identify faulty meters and potential fraud at scale
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Data Engineer

2015 — 2017

Bayview Financial

  • Automated manual workflows saving 200+ hours per week
  • Built financial models in VBA & C# for amortization, escrow analysis, and DSI calculations
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Underwriting Assistant

2014 — 2015

Liberty Mutual

  • Automated reporting and routine processes using VBA scripts for Microsoft Office

02 /Education

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M.S. Information Studies and Data Science

2018

University of Amsterdam

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B.S. Information Systems

2014

Florida International University

03 /Skills

Languages

PythonSQLJavaScriptC#

ML / AI

PyTorchTensorFlowXGBoostScikit-learnRAGWhisperOpenAIClaude

Data & Infra

DatabricksPySparkMLflowDockerAWS LambdaAzure DevOps

Frontend & Viz

ReactJSFlaskStreamlitD3.jsPower BI