Ruben Seoane https://www.linkedin.com/in/seoaneruben/
I’m a former startup founder with over 5 years of experience as a full-stack developer. Funded Damocles Analytics in 2018 as a research tool for journalists, think tanks, and market analysts to help accelerate research of geopolitical narratives and ecosystems. Got financing from Google, and built the solution as a Saas leveraging news data feeds, NLP, and knowledge graphs. Started collaborating with the Financial Times in 2019 and 2020-2021 and worked with them to apply the same approach to the ESG market. As a solo founder I had to wear many hats, from building landing pages, marketing materials, using Google Analytics, making pitch decks, presenting to investors or conferences, interview potential hires, performing market analysis, pitching the solution to companies, etc. Since early 2022 have focused on long and short-term work in the crypto industry, working for an NFT liquidity protocol, several NFT mint projects, and building other NLP-related projects.
Spoken Languages: English, Spanish, Hebrew
Front End: React (focused on Next.js), several FE libraries like SemanticUI, MaterialUI, Tailwind CSS, styled-components… Web3: Integration with smart contracts through ethers, wagmi, Thirdweb, Moralis SDK, Alchemy API. Data visualization with Echarts, Chart.js, etc. Web2 auth apps using NextAuth, Firebase, AWS Cogito, and Supabase. Taking Figma designs into code State management with react-query QA Automation with Selenium and Cypress
Data Science: Focus on Natural Language Programming (using BERT, spacy, gensim, textblob etc.) and knowledge graph building, experience with Q&A systems (extractive and generative), LLMs (large language models) and prompt engineering for GPT3.
Back End: Python and Node.js (>90% in Python). Solidity intermediate knowledge. Setting APIs with Python Flask, FastAPI and Node + Docker (as microservices or monoliths)
Infra: Exp. with GCP, Heroku, Vercel, Deta.sh and AWS (EC2, Lightsail, Beanstalk, load balancers, lambdas, cogito, DynamoDB…) Firebase and Supabase DBs
Damocles Analytics - AI Driven Political Insights Platform
Initial Demo (app is no longer live)
Description:
Damocles Analytics is an AI-driven Geopolitical Research platform, intended for use by journalists, think tanks and finance analysts, got initial funding from Google:
To access one of its first demos go to https://dashboard-test.vercel.app/
The system would monitor RSS news feeds + gather news from different data providers, use different NLP pipelines to extract entities (like People, Organizations, dates, ect), extract relationships (classified into personal, political and business - employeeOf, donorTo, ownerOf, fatherOf, etc-)