Jorge Cardete

Growth Engineer

Email: jorgecardete@gmail.com | LinkedIn: jorgecardetellamas

Experience

Bit2Me

Growth EngineerAug 2026 – Present

Designing and running experiments across the activation, retention and acquisition funnels, and building the technical infrastructure behind growth (tracking, automation, personalization).

Grupo Cardete Ventures

Founder & CTONov 2024 – Present

Leading technology at a 24/7 urgent roadside assistance and express transport company operating in Madrid and Barcelona. Building the tech platform behind the operation: dispatch, logistics and customer experience for a service that reaches drivers in under 30 minutes.

The Deep Hub

FounderSep 2023 – Present

Founded and run The Deep Hub, a technical publication on data science and machine learning hosted on Medium. Grew it to 570+ published articles and ~100 contributing engineers and researchers, with 2.2K followers.

I write in-depth technical pieces (mainly computer vision) and edit every submission to the publication.

Zapic

FounderJan 2025 – Aug 2026

Building AI assistants for social media management: Zapic researches trends, generates content and engages with communities. I led product, engineering and company strategy.

xFractal

AI EngineerDec 2024 – Nov 2025

Led AI initiatives with on-chain AI agents inside Solana.

Founding Engineer · Rust developerOct 2024 – Dec 2024

Designed and implemented solutions in Rust, optimizing AI models and orchestrating scalable infrastructure on the blockchain.

Axpe Consulting

Data ScientistApr 2024 – Jan 2025

BBVA: Developed an AI-powered chatbot to address banking regulatory issues, integrating AI agents on Cohere, GPT and Llama to provide accurate and efficient responses.

Dragados: Collaborated with a team of data scientists and analysts to create real-time model result visualizations in Grafana within the Databricks ecosystem.

Cosentino: Built a computer vision model using Azure ML to classify production outputs, optimizing processes and ensuring quality control.

Omya: Developed a monitoring and analytics system using SAS Viya and Python, providing end-to-end visibility and real-time tracking of company operations.

Sabadell: Created a testing framework for speech-to-text models, including Whisper, Wav2Vec and Kaldi, to evaluate their performance and accuracy in real-world applications.

Medtronic

Data AnalystApr 2023 – Apr 2024

Salesforce: Analyzed and managed data using Power BI and Python to generate actionable insights, improving business processes and decision-making.

OCR: Developed an OCR solution in Python to automate the extraction and processing of unstructured tender documentation.

FTT DAO

Community ManagerAug 2022 – Nov 2022

Skills

  • Languages: Python, Rust, TypeScript, C++, SQL
  • Machine learning: PyTorch, TensorFlow and Keras, OpenCV, LightGBM, Azure ML, CNNs, object detection, OCR, speech-to-text
  • Generative AI: LLMs (GPT, Llama, Cohere) and AI agents, including on-chain on Solana
  • Data: Databricks, Grafana, Power BI, SAS Viya, SQL
  • Backend and infrastructure: Flask, Docker, Azure, Terraform, RabbitMQ, MySQL
  • Web: Astro, TypeScript, HTML and CSS
  • Growth: Funnel experimentation, tracking, automation, personalization, Google Ads and Meta Ads

Projects and hackathons

  • Personal portfolio (2026): This site: a portfolio and blog built with Astro and Markdown content, custom pixel-art icons and a playable map to explore it.
  • X-Ray · HackSpain (2026): Embat challenge: a 0–100 financial health score for SMEs built from their treasury data, with a 3-month forecast, alerts and a scenario simulator. Demo · Code
  • Colosseum (2025): Top 10 at the Colosseum Solana hackathon with xFractal, a trading platform powered by AI agents. Video
  • Home Improvement Scraper (2024): Real-time price comparison API across Leroy Merlin, BricoDepot and Bauhaus, with distributed workers and caching. Code
  • Cell Vision (2024): Detection and classification of peripheral blood cells: OpenCV segmentation and a fine-tuned ConvNeXt (98.5% accuracy), served in a Flask app. Code · Model · Article
  • Parking Detector (2024): Detects free parking spaces from video with a TensorFlow CNN, deployed with Docker and Azure. Code · Article · Deployment
  • Telegram Ops Bot (2024): Telegram bot to run The Deep Hub: it finds writers on Medium, handles email submissions and generates social posts with AI, each task in its own container. Code · Social API

Writing and publications

Education

Universidad Francisco de Vitoria

Business Analytics & Business Administration | Integral Leadership ProgramSep 2020 – May 2025