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MLMarketLens

ML pipeline forecasting market trends from price action and sentiment.

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AdrianAnchuela

Data & AI Engineer

Software engineer in Madrid building AI-driven systems, cloud infrastructure and full-stack applications for global enterprises.

Clients & organisations

IBM
Ejército del Aire
Telefónica
RTVE
Iberdrola
Mapfre
Orange
Gobierno de Navarra

About

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I trained as a computer engineer, on a foundation of mathematics, algorithms and logic — the part of computer science that does not change with the framework of the week.

Today I build AI systems end to end: retrieval pipelines, fine-tuned language models, evaluation loops and the cloud infrastructure they run on. Systems designed to hold up in production, not just in the demo.

Outside of work I am drawn to quantitative finance, AI research and sport. My final degree project, MLMarketLens, brought all three together.

Focus

  • AI & Machine Learning
  • Cloud Infrastructure
  • Full-Stack Development

Selected stack

  • Python
  • Java
  • TypeScript
  • Vue.js
  • React
  • SQL
  • OpenShift
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Watsonx.ai
  • LangChain
  • TensorFlow
  • Vector DBs
  • IBM Aspera

Selected work

Projects

01FeaturedTITANSpanish Air ForceAI-driven decision-support platform delivering grounded, real-time intelligence over classified military documentation and operational data.PythonWatsonx.aiLangChainWeaviateCP4D

Problem

Military operations require instant, traceable answers grounded in massive corpora of regulations, technical manuals and historical reports — with zero tolerance for hallucinations.

RAGHybrid SearchVector DBLLM OrchestrationPredictive Analytics

Architecture & approach

  • RAG architecture with hierarchical chunking — small chunks for retrieval, larger context windows for the LLM to reason over.
  • Hybrid search combining dense vector retrieval (HNSW index) with BM25 keyword search, fused via Reciprocal Rank Fusion to capture both semantic intent and exact identifiers.
  • Enterprise vector database deployed on OpenShift for full data sovereignty and on-prem security compliance.
  • Continuous evaluation pipeline measuring Faithfulness, Context Recall and Answer Relevancy with RAGAS-style metrics to keep responses grounded in source material.
02MLMarketLensFinal degree project — UAHNeural pipeline predicting financial market trends by fusing historical price action with real-time sentiment extracted from social media and news.PythonTensorFlowLangChainHuggingFaceFinance APIs

Problem

Pure quantitative models miss narrative-driven market moves. The system fuses structured time-series with unstructured text sentiment to capture both signals.

NLPSentiment AnalysisTime-SeriesEmbeddingsLangChain
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Architecture & approach

  • Custom sentence-transformer embeddings to vectorise news headlines and social posts at scale — the same embedding model used for indexing and inference.
  • Sentiment-aware feature engineering: aggregating embedding-space sentiment scores into time-series features alongside OHLCV price data.
  • Sequence model (LSTM + attention) trained to learn the joint distribution of price action and narrative sentiment for trend forecasting.
  • LangChain pipeline orchestrating news ingestion, embedding generation, sentiment scoring and prediction in a continuous loop.
03Aspera DeploymentsRTVE · Telefónica · IberdrolaHigh-throughput data transfer architecture engineered for three of Spain’s largest enterprises — eliminating bottlenecks across media and energy data pipelines.IBM AsperaOpenShiftKubernetesNetworking

Problem

AI and analytics pipelines are bottlenecked by data movement. Petabyte-scale audiovisual archives and energy telemetry need to move between systems faster than TCP can deliver.

Data InfrastructureHigh-Throughput TransferCloud-NativeSecurity

Architecture & approach

  • FASP protocol implementation bypassing TCP limitations — predictable throughput at line rate regardless of distance or latency.
  • Container-native deployment on OpenShift with horizontal scaling and zero-downtime rollouts across hybrid cloud environments.
  • Secure pipelines feeding downstream AI workloads — model training, semantic indexing of audiovisual archives, real-time energy telemetry analytics.
  • Custom monitoring integrations surfacing transfer metrics into existing enterprise observability stacks.
04Conversational AI EngineMapfre & OrangeProduction-grade LLM pipelines for enterprise virtual assistants — improving intent classification, multi-turn coherence and grounded response quality at scale.Watsonx.aiLangChainLLMsRAGDPO

Problem

Generic LLMs hallucinate on insurance policies and telecom contracts. The system needs grounded, brand-aligned answers across complex multi-turn dialogues.

RAGDPO Fine-tuningSemantic ChunkingLLM EvaluationIntent Classification

Architecture & approach

  • RAG pipeline over policy documents and product catalogues — semantic chunking by topic boundary rather than fixed token windows, preserving meaning across retrieval.
  • Hybrid retrieval combining dense embeddings with keyword search to handle both abstract concepts and exact policy codes or SKUs.
  • DPO (Direct Preference Optimization) fine-tuning on curated preference pairs to align the model with brand tone — without training a separate reward model.
  • Continuous evaluation loop using Faithfulness and Answer Relevancy metrics to catch regressions before production deployment.
  • Conversation memory layer maintaining intent across multi-turn flows for natural, contextual exchanges.
05Intelligent Workflow AutomationIBM InternalBrowser-native automation layer augmenting internal engineering workflows with intelligent task routing — eliminating repetitive overhead at the source.JavaScriptChrome APILLMsAutomation

Problem

Engineers lose hours daily to repetitive form-filling, status updates and context switching across internal tools. Standard scripts break on edge cases — LLMs handle them.

Workflow AutomationLLM RoutingBrowser-NativeInternal Tooling

Architecture & approach

  • Browser-native extension intercepting page context and surfacing intelligent actions in real time.
  • LLM-powered task classification routing user actions to the right internal system without manual lookup.
  • Lightweight on-device parsing for sensitive data — no PII ever leaves the browser unless explicitly approved.
  • Workflow orchestration layer chaining multi-step actions across disconnected enterprise tools.

Markets & quant

The market as a dataset

Quantitative finance is where my three favourite things meet: code, mathematics and markets. What began as independent research during university became MLMarketLens, my final degree project.

Its thesis: markets move on numbers and on narrative. The system fuses OHLCV time-series with sentiment embeddings extracted from news and social media, and a sequence model (LSTM + attention) learns their joint behaviour to forecast trends.

Signal pipeline

  • Price action — OHLCV time-series as the quantitative backbone
  • Narrative — sentiment embeddings from news and social media
  • Forecast — LSTM + attention over the fused feature space

Experience

Career

January 2023 — Present · Madrid (Hybrid)

IBM

Data & AI Engineer

  • Engineered an AI-driven decision-support platform for the Spanish Air Force — integrating predictive analytics and automation pipelines into mission-critical operations.
  • Architected and deployed IBM Aspera high-speed data transfer infrastructure for RTVE and Iberdrola, eliminating bottlenecks across enterprise media and energy workflows.
  • Optimised conversational AI models for Orange, applying advanced NLP techniques to improve intent classification, multi-turn coherence and real-time response quality.
  • Designed and trained supervised learning models for Mapfre, accelerating data processing pipelines and improving predictive accuracy across insurance risk workflows.

July 2022 — January 2023 · Madrid (On-site)

IBM

Software Engineer Intern

  • Orchestrated large-scale database migrations across critical enterprise environments, ensuring zero data loss and seamless system continuity.
  • Specialised in IBM Aspera architecture — studying high-throughput transfer protocols and deploying secure, scalable data pipelines for enterprise clients.
  • Developed expertise in Watsonx.ai, training and deploying AI models in IBM Cloud environments with a focus on production-ready ML workflows.
  • Built an intelligent browser extension for IBM GISS that automated repetitive internal processes, reducing engineering overhead through workflow orchestration.

2019 — 2023

UAH · Independent

Early Career & Research

  • Completed intensive cybersecurity training at UAH — covering network security, ethical hacking and enterprise risk assessment.
  • Provided academic support in mathematics to first-year engineering students, reinforcing analytical thinking and problem-solving fundamentals.
  • Began independent research into quantitative finance and machine learning, laying the groundwork for the MLMarketLens degree project.

Education

Academic background

2019 — 2024

Computer Engineering

Universidad de Alcalá

Final project: MLMarketLens — neural network model for stock and fund trend prediction using NLP and social media sentiment analysis.

2022

Cybersecurity Training

Universidad de Alcalá

Intensive program in network security, ethical hacking, penetration testing and enterprise risk assessment.

Contact

Let’s build something.

If you are hiring, exploring a project or just want to talk engineering, my inbox is open.

Location

Madrid, Spain

Instagram

@adri.inu

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