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Eskil J.

Eskil J.

AI & Machine Learning Engineer · Senior

Portugal · Rate on request

Professional Overview

Physicist by training, technical leader by trade, now building agentic systems full time. Ten years across real-time trading infrastructure, applied ML at scale, and multi-agent automation running in production, including four years leading an ML consulting practice. Equally at home leading a team and in the codebase. Based in Lisbon

Intro

Experience

Company
Kynikos OU
Aug 2025 – Jul 2026
Role title
Founder

AI Expertise

AI & Machine Learning Engineers MLOps & AI Infrastructure

Skills

Python LangChain Docker

Employment Type

Full-time

Description of Responsibilities

  • Built agentic document pipelines: intake, extraction, validation, routing
  • Delivered an autonomous multi-agent pricing engine for a freight client
  • Scoped and architected client engagements end to end, then shipped them
  • Built a multi-agent system in Rust from scratch, orchestration to guardrails
Company
Pareto Securities
Apr 2021 – Mar 2025
Role title
Tech Lead

AI Expertise

Data Science & Analytics MLOps & AI Infrastructure

Skills

Python SQL

Employment Type

Full-time

Description of Responsibilities

  • Led senior engineers running the bank's critical trading infrastructure
  • Built high-throughput, low-latency pipelines for live equity market data
  • Owned credit-risk ML in production: deployment, monitoring, interpretability
  • Built the firm's BI platform and consolidated firm-wide data
  • Bridged trading, credit, compliance and data science on delivery

Key Achievements / KPIs

  • Scaled credit-risk modelling from a handful of firms to all US equities
  • Opened and led the firm's first AI work across its business lines
  • Enabled major commission growth without adding headcount
Company
Visma Consulting
Jan 2018 – Mar 2021
Role title
Head of Machine Learning & Senior Consultant

AI Expertise

AI Product & Strategy

Skills

Python PyTorch NumPy TensorFlow

Employment Type

Full-time

Description of Responsibilities

  • Owned the firm's ML strategy and built the practice from scratch
  • Led engineering teams delivering applied ML into client operations
  • Ran a multi-year public sector ML programme from green field to production
  • Represented ML capability to clients and internal leadership

Key Achievements / KPIs

  • Grew ML from a small specialism into a core part of the offering
  • Programme became the firm's reference case for applied ML

Education

School
Nova School of Business and Economics
Jan 2025 – Dec 2025
Degree / Program
MBA

Field of Study: MBA

School
The University of Edinburgh
Sep 2016 – Jun 2017
Degree / Program
MSc

Field of Study: High-Performance Computing

School
The University of Edinburgh
Sep 2012 – May 2015
Degree / Program
BSc

Field of Study: Computational Physics

Areas of Expertise

AI & Machine Learning Engineers

Design, train, and ship production ML models — from data pipelines to model inference at scale. Covers supervised learning, neural networks, LLM integration, and model optimisation.

AI Product & Strategy

Translate AI capabilities into product roadmaps, define success metrics, and drive adoption across engineering and business teams.

AI Business, Marketing & Strategy

Apply AI to marketing automation, content generation, customer segmentation, and revenue growth strategies.

Open to

Full-time Contract Freelance

Skills

Python SQL PyTorch TensorFlow RAG LangChain spark

Experience Level

Senior

Current location

Portugal

Time Zone

Lisbon UTC+0

Primary Work Language

English

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