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Francisco García Flórez

ML engineer building research, training and inference infrastructure in Python, JAX and Rust.

Career

2025 — Now

Quantitative Developer, IMC Trading, Amsterdam

Designed and implemented an event-based live trading system in a team of 12, working closely with the execution team in Zug. Led the design discussions to make our combined deployment highly available and resilient.

Built and owned the ML research platform for MFT and HFT, including high-throughput Rust services for data ingestion into ClickHouse and a centralized warehouse with over 1 PB of market data. Reduced Rust CI build runtime by about 10x.

Built and ran an LLM inference stack for open-weight models on spare GPU nodes, resilient to evictions, serving over 40B tokens per day to internal agent tooling. Evaluated open-weight models as a replacement for commercial APIs in token-heavy systems such as agent memory.

2023 — 2025

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, ASML, The Netherlands

Drove the move from MATLAB bilinear models on a laptop to ML in Python, starting with deep vision models, across five teams, 50 people total. Pushed it bottom-up and onboarded other YieldStar products onto the platform.

Increased model training runs 100x by introducing Azure Kubernetes clusters, with Coder workspaces for researchers and developers. Brought the inference stack onto the YieldStar machine itself: k3s inside a Linux VM on Windows.

Delivered an end-to-end customer application for training, evaluation and inference of ML models across cloud, customer infrastructure and edge devices. Received numerous commendations for collaboration and mentoring of colleagues.

2021 — 2023

Design Engineer (Data Scientist), ASML, The Netherlands

Led the design and industrialization of ML algorithms for next-gen YieldStar tools.

Analyzed optical signal data, developed model architecture and training from research to production. Implemented and optimized the end-to-end training pipeline to fit on constrained customer hardware.

Education

2017 — 2021

PhD in Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Supervisor: Henk T. C. Stoof. Thesis: Excitons in 2D Semiconductors and Topological Insulators.

2015 — 2017

MSc in Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Supervisor: Henk T. C. Stoof. Thesis: Holographic Massive Fermions.

Finished Cum Laude (GPA: 8.5). Results peer-reviewed and published in April, 2018.

2011 — 2015

BSc in Physics, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain

Supervisor: Yolanda Lozano. Thesis: Introduction to String Theory.

Premio Fin de Grado (Summa Cum Laude, highest grade).

Interests

FOSS

Open-source contributions. Have maintained a personal cross-cloud Kubernetes cluster since 2022.

Linux

Avid Arch Linux and Neovim user.

Efficiency

Drives continuous personal improvement, not by doing more but by doing it better.

Passions

My family, our two cats, reading books, playing video games and weightlifting motivate me to keep learning and growing as a person.