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Head of AI at Shakers

I lead AI at Shakers, a flexible-talent marketplace in Madrid with 600 enterprise clients and 15,000+ verified freelancers. I own the technical architecture and product direction of all of our AI: Matchmaking, Talent Insight and the ShakersAI platform underneath. My job is to ship AI that recruiters trust, candidates can challenge, and regulators can read.

Shakers' Matchmaking system is listed in the OECD.AI Observatory catalog as a reference matchmaking system. We are 1 of 12 Spanish companies selected by Spain's Ministry of Digital Transformation (DG IA) for the EU AI Act regulatory sandbox, where I run the 8-month adaptation programme in direct collaboration with BBVA and DG IA. Shakers was in the first cohort to obtain the Adigital Algorithmic Transparency Certificate. I led that, too.

Before all of this I did a PhD in psychometrics, with 2,780+ citations and an h-index of 19 to show for the research. It taught me to measure what actually matters, which turns out to be most of the job when you ship AI that people can challenge.

Eduardo sitting on the floor of a dark room, working on a laptop, lit by a single hanging bulb.

What I do at Shakers

  • Matchmaking. LLM-based talent-project ranker with explainable, auditable reasoning. Powers 7,500+ projects.
  • Talent Insight (Alma). Conversational interview system that turns CVs into interactive, context-aware profiles. In production.
  • ShakersAI. The AI platform under everything above. Built from zero. Self-hosted Qwen on AWS via vLLM for privacy-sensitive flows; OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic for the rest; Langfuse, Datadog, and Promptfoo for observability and eval.
  • AI Act readiness. Risk classification, quality management system, technical documentation, all the unglamorous paperwork that turns a model into a defensible product.

Outside the role

I speak publicly when the topic is one I can speak about honestly. Most recently ProductTank Madrid. The HR Review interview is a decent snapshot of how I think about deploying AI without stripping out the human part.

This site is the long-form half of what I do. If you're getting AI into production and want a second pair of eyes on the strategy, the evals or the org design, the book-a-chat link in the footer is the way in. The CV has the dates.