Carlos Iguaran

Research engineer · Buenos Aires

Computer scientist (MSc, UBA, 2017), Specialist in mathematical statistics (UBA, 2025) interested in the computational aspects of Bayesian inference — modelling statistical problems as programs and implementing inference algorithms such as MCMC and SMC.

2023 →
Research engineer · Recast

Statistical computing. Applied problems both in the Bayesian workflow of a production-level Mix Marketing Model based on Gaussian processes, and downstream tasks like constrained optimization and optimal experimental design.

2023 →
BlackJAX contributor

Contributor to the SMC subsystem. See BlackJAX paper (arXiv 2402.10797), all PRs, and full contribution notes →.

2020–2023
Data products — first IC hire · RapidSOS

Built data products end-to-end from the ground up. Exploratory analysis, data pipelines, analysis software, and close stakeholder collaboration across multiple iterations.

2019–2020
ML engineer · ASAPP

End-to-end development of NLP models for real-time production inference. PyTorch, Airflow, Kubernetes.

2016–2019
Backend software engineer · Medallia

Software design and architecture, refactoring large codebases, SRE, technical debt management, and testing.

2016–2017

pymc-devs / pymc-extras

Powerful add-ons for the PyMC probabilistic programming library

contributor

ciguaran / statistical_rethinking

Notes for the Statistical Rethinking course, written in PyMC

author
Bayesian inference MCMC SMC JAX · BlackJAX Probabilistic programming Optimal experimental design Constrained optimization PyMC NLP · PyTorch Data pipelines Software architecture Python