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manuel@lantean:~$ whoami

Manuel Aguado

> machine learning engineer

I work where machine learning meets real-world engineering: from biometric recognition research to LLM-powered agents and the backend systems that run them.

$ cd ~/projects $ cat papers.bib
4peer-reviewed papers
2packages on PyPI
10+years in ML & software
1932FIDE blitz rating
01 about

Research mindset, engineering hands.

I'm deeply passionate about maths and computer science, and I enjoy solving hard problems in collaborative environments. I've been around computers since I was a kid, and what still drives me is using them to solve real problems that improve people's lives.

I spent years doing research on fingerprint, palmprint and speaker recognition: image processing, statistical modelling and deep learning applied to forensic biometrics. Today I build backend systems and AI tooling, and I advise teams on LLM agents, cloud architecture and delivery pipelines.

When I'm not researching or building, I'm working on open source, or playing blitz chess.

whoami.jsonjson
{
  "name": "Manuel Aguado Martínez",
  "role": "Computer Science Engineer",
  "education": "BSc. CS, University of Havana",
  "focus": [
    "machine learning", "LLM agents",
    "biometrics", "backend systems"
  ],
  "stack": ["python", "c/c++", "c#", "js"],
  "speaks": ["es", "en"],
  "chess_blitz_fide": 1932
}
02 git log --oneline

Path so far

  1. 7f3a9c1 (HEAD -> main) · 2020 — present
    feat: technical advisory
    LLM-based conversational agents, agentic RAG, AWS serverless applications and CI/CD pipelines.
  2. e41b0d8 · 2019 — present
    feat: backend engineering & technical lead
    Python, Django and Flask. Led large web platforms, a legacy Django 1.8 → 4.2 modernization, and microservices for document-processing automation.
  3. 9c22f6a · 2016 — 2018
    feat: freelance engineering
    A Django platform with a multithreaded architecture, REST services and an ML module for selecting providers.
  4. b5d81e3 · 2012 — 2021
    research: biometrics
    Fingerprint and palmprint recognition for a national automatic fingerprint identification system, an international research stay on forensic palmprint acquisition, and earlier work on speaker recognition.
  5. 0a1c4f2 · 2013
    init: BSc. Computer Science
    University of Havana.
03 expertise

What I work on

[01]∇

Machine learning & AI

Neural networks, deep learning, GANs, LLMs and AI agents, with statistics and probability as the foundation.

[02]◎

Biometrics & pattern recognition

Fingerprint and palmprint recognition, minutiae extraction, speaker recognition, and evaluation of biometric systems.

[03]∿

Image & signal processing

Enhancement and contextual filtering, frequency-domain analysis, segmentation, thresholding and texture analysis.

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Backend & cloud

Python, Django, Flask, REST, microservices, Docker, AWS serverless and CI/CD pipelines.

  • python
  • c
  • c++
  • c#
  • javascript
  • java
  • matlab
  • django
  • flask
  • docker
  • aws
  • latex
  • git
  • linux
05 publications

Papers

  1. 2020
    Document scanners for minutiae-based palmprint recognition: a feasibility study
    Aguado-Martínez, M., Hernández-Palancar, J., Castillo-Rosado, K., et al.
    Pattern Analysis and Applications
  2. 2019
    On Using Document Scanners for Minutiae-Based Palmprint Recognition
    Aguado-Martínez, M., Hernández-Palancar, J., Castillo-Rosado, K., Kauba, C., Kirchgasser, S., Uhl, A.
    CIARP 2019 · Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications
  3. 2018
    Speeding up High Resolution Palmprint Matching by Using Singular Points
    Aguado-Martínez, M., Hernández-Palancar, J.
    IWAIPR 2018 · LNCS vol. 11047, pp. 87–94
  4. 2013
    Speaker Verification Using Accumulative Vectors with Support Vector Machines
    Aguado Martínez, M., Hernández-Sierra, G., Calvo de Lara, J. R.
    CIARP 2013 · pp. 350–357

→ more on researchgate

06 contact

Let's talk

Want to work together, talk research, or play a game of blitz?

bash — manuel@lanteanzsh
$ ./contact --form
contact form: coming soon™
$ ls ~/links
github    linkedin    researchgate
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