Senior AI/ML Engineer · Barcelona

Antar Moratona Franco

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About me

Data at scale.
Intelligence at the core.

"I spent years building systems that move, transform and aggregate data at scale. Now I'm building the systems that understand it."

I'm a Senior AI/ML Engineer based in Barcelona with more than 14 years of experience building large-scale data platforms and distributed systems.

For most of my career, I specialized in Data Engineering; designing cloud-native architectures, analytics platforms, and data pipelines processing over 50 billion events every day. In 2025, I transitioned into AI/ML Engineering, where I now help build the infrastructure, tooling, and operational foundations that enable machine learning systems to move from experimentation to production.

Today my work focuses on MLOps, machine learning platforms, and decision systems at King's MLOps organization; contributing to systems that enable personalized player experiences across the full ML lifecycle.

Currently exploring

Reinforcement Learning Contextual Bandits Agentic Systems LangGraph LLM Evaluation AI Platform Engineering
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Years of experience
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Events processed daily
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Companies built for
Technical skills

The toolkit.

A decade building data platforms, now building the ML systems that run on top of them.

AI & ML Engineering
Feature Engineering88%
MLOps82%
Experimentation Platforms85%
ML Lifecycle Management80%
Contextual Multi-Armed Bandits75%
Agentic Systems & RAG68%
Data Engineering
SQL98%
Python95%
BigQuery95%
Apache Airflow95%
Data Modeling & Architecture95%
PySpark / Distributed Processing88%
Cloud & Infrastructure
Google Cloud Platform92%
Terraform / Infrastructure as Code90%
Docker90%
CI/CD Pipelines85%
Kubernetes / GKE80%
Vertex AI70%
Software Engineering
Distributed Systems95%
System Design92%
Data Platform Architecture95%
API Design85%
Technical Leadership85%
Code Reviews & Mentoring85%
Career

Where I've been.

From data pipelines processing 50 billion daily events to the ML systems that make sense of them.

Sep 2025 — Present
Senior AI/ML Engineer
King CURRENT
Part of the ML Operations organization building the infrastructure, tooling, and practices that enable machine learning systems at scale.
  • Developing scalable ML infrastructure supporting batch and real-time workloads.
  • Contributing to decision-enablement systems delivering personalized player experiences.
  • Building tooling around reinforcement learning and contextual multi-armed bandit approaches.
  • Designing production-grade pipelines for model training, deployment, monitoring, and retraining.
  • Promoting engineering best practices through code reviews and technical mentoring.
PythonSQLGCPBigQueryVertex AIKubernetesTerraformAirflowMLflowDocker
Mar 2021 — Aug 2025 · 4 years 5 months
Senior Data Engineer
King WORK
Promoted to senior with same core responsibilities plus expanded leadership and client-facing scope.
  • Led projects end-to-end from definition through delivery.
  • Primary contact point with 3rd-party vendors for new integrations and maintenance.
  • Close collaboration with internal stakeholders — finance, data science, game business teams.
  • Ran PoCs to evaluate new technologies and validate project feasibility.
  • Worked with PO and PM to align deliverables to company objectives and reduce technical debt.
PythonSQLBigQueryApache AirflowGCPTerraformDocker
Dec 2018 — Mar 2021 · 2 years 3 months
Data Engineer
King WORK
Joined the core data products team delivering top-tier data models, tools, and products across game and business teams at King. Deliberately moved to a completely new tech stack to grow.
  • GCP as cloud provider — BigQuery, PubSub, Cloud Functions, Compute Engine.
  • Docker containers, Terraform for infrastructure provisioning.
  • Built solid event ingestion pipelines and migrated ETL management to Airflow 2.0.
PythonSQLGCPBigQueryAirflowDockerTerraform
Aug 2018 — Nov 2018 · 4 months
Marketing-Analytics Product Manager
Social Point WORK
Embedded a small analytics team inside marketing to bridge the gap between marketing needs and data engineering delivery.
  • Owned all analytic work inside the marketing department.
  • Introduced agile (Scrum) methodologies to the team.
  • Managed 1–2 data analysts, handling unplanned analysis and maintenance.
  • Owner of the marketing BI tool: QlikView.
QlikViewSQLScrumAnalytics
Mar 2014 — Aug 2018 · 4 years 5 months
Data Engineer
Social Point WORK
Part of the "datalab" team responsible for data ingestion, KPI creation, and BI tool maintenance.
  • Maintained an in-house semi-real-time ETL (Python + Redis consumers, <3 min latency).
  • Maintained hourly and daily ETLs in AWS Redshift (PHP).
  • Owned the aggregation pipeline from raw events to summary tables.
  • 3rd-party data ingestion; ETLs scheduled with crontab, later migrated to Azkaban.
PythonPHPSQLAWSRedshiftRedisAzkaban
Mar 2013 — Mar 2014 · 1 year
Data Analyst Developer Intern
Social Point WORK
Joined to document the company's main database. Instead of doing it manually, built a bot to extract schema and metadata and populate a structured Google Sheet. Joined as a developer thereafter.
  • Learned the fundamentals of big data environments.
  • Automated manual processes and improved knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases.
  • Understood free-to-play game economics and the KPIs that drive them.
PythonSQLGoogle Sheets API
Jun 2012 — Feb 2013 · 9 months
Software Developer Internship
everis WORK
Developed an open-source solution for the management and deployment of multiple hosts (servers and clients) on the same infrastructure — a web app tool to easily push changes across many machines.
  • Implemented git-based version control into the deployment workflow.
  • Introduced coding standards to a previously vim-only server workflow.
PHPGitLinuxOpen Source
2007 — 2013
Engineer's Degree in Computer Science
UPC · Facultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona EDUCATION

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Full engineering program covering algorithms, systems, databases, networks, and software engineering fundamentals.

Selected work

Projects.

Production systems, platform infrastructure, and side projects — what I've built and shipped.

Wedding Website screenshot
Web · Backend

Wedding Website

One-page site built for my wedding — guests could view event info, see our story, and confirm attendance. Every RSVP triggered an email to us via GCP.

GCPPythonHTML/CSS/JS
Argos Smart City Parking screenshot
Apps · Backend

Argos — Smart City Parking

Pioneer smart city project to detect real-time state of public parking in Vidreres. Built the full backend and frontend webapp, plus a REST API for the iOS app used by public agents.

PHPSymfonyBootstrapjQueryREST API
JNC iOS App screenshot
Apps · Backend

JNC iOS App

Backend for an iOS app for Joventut Nacionalista de Catalunya — news, agenda, and direct contact. Built REST API, push-notification system, and admin panel using Amazon SNS.

Ruby on RailsREST APIAWS SNS
PopKorn iOS App screenshot
Apps

PopKorn

iOS companion app for TV-show fans — database of 2,000+ American, British, and Spanish shows with search, genres, plot summaries, and episode lists. Reviewed by several Apple-focused publications.

iOSObjective-CREST API
IT-SAT screenshot
Open Source · Web

IT-SAT

Open-source web tool for managing and deploying changes across multiple machines from a single interface. Added git version control and coding standards to a previously manual vim-on-server workflow.

PHPGitLinuxOpen Source
Legacy Personal Site screenshot
Web

Personal Website 1.0

My first personal website — built with standard HTML/CSS/JS, Bootstrap, and jQuery. Simple, but it got me shipping to the web for the first time.

HTMLCSSJavaScriptBootstrap
Personal Website 2.0 screenshot
Web

Personal Website 2.0

More dynamic and modern version of my personal site — built on top of an HTML5 template with heavy customisation of JavaScript, CSS animations, and third-party frameworks to make it feel truly personal.

HTML5CSS3JavaScriptjQuery
AI-Generated
Web · AI

This Portfolio — Built with AI

This very site was entirely designed and built using AI — no manual Figma, no hand-written CSS from scratch. Prompted, iterated, and shipped through a conversational AI design workflow.

Claude AIOpen DesignHTML/CSS/JSIntersectionObserverCSS Animations
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Let's talk.

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