Ignacio Amaya de la Peña

Ignacio Amaya de la Peña

I'm a Senior Manager leading the AI Lab at Rovio, focused on building AI systems that combine technical depth, creativity, and real product impact.

My Career

Rovio, Helsinki Aug 2019 - Present

Senior Manager, AI Lab · Principal ML Engineer

Leading Rovio's AI Lab, building high-impact generative AI and ML solutions for games. Previously led the ML team across Personalization, Ads and User Acquisition, grew to Principal ML Engineer, and drove the AI strategy, governance and genAI tooling.

EY, Madrid Jan 2018 - Aug 2019

Senior Consultant, Data Science & Data Engineering

Led AI and data engineering projects for financial and insurance clients, from concept to production. Built OCR and deep learning systems for document understanding, and deployed Big Data and cloud platforms.

Qliro AB, Stockholm Feb 2017 - Sep 2017

Big Data Developer

Built Scala-based ETL pipelines migrating data from SQL to Hadoop and fraud detection models with Spark ML, the basis of my master's thesis.

Education & early career Sep 2011 - Aug 2017

BSc Mathematics & Informatics (UPM) · MSc Data Science (UPM & KTH) · Internships

BSc in Mathematics & Informatics (UPM) and a double-degree Data Science MSc (UPM & KTH). Early experience: intern at CRIDA and Indizen, freelance for Vaciatucasa.

My Skills

Languages

Spanish English

Soft Skills

Leadership Communication Cross-functional Collaboration Rapid Prototyping Product Thinking Strategic Planning

Programming

Python SQL Bash Java JavaScript Scala R

Data Science & ML

TensorFlow PyTorch Scikit-learn Pandas / Polars Spark ML MLflow SageMaker Databricks

LLMs & Agents

GPT / Claude / Llama RAG Bedrock Agents MCPs LLM Evaluation Hex Magic / Databricks Genie

Generative AI & Art

GitHub Copilot Claude Code / Skills Gemini ComfyUI Stable Diffusion / Flux Qwen / HiDream

Big Data & Analytics

Spark Hive / Presto / Athena Elasticsearch Grafana

Cloud & DevOps

Git Docker AWS Kubernetes Jenkins / TeamCity Azkaban
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