Xabier Urruchua Garay

I represented graduate data science and engineering students in formal university communications and also led professional development and industry engagement initiatives. I also drove community building efforts connecting students, alumni and industry partners across data and AI domains.

Bayda is a consumer brands group operating across manufacturing, textile, and couture fashion markets in Europe, the USA, and New Zealand. I led the design and delivery of scalable data pipelines and applied machine learning solutions to support personalization, analytics, and operational decision making across global consumer brands. Coordinated cross functional teams while maintaining cloud infrastructure and production ML systems to ensure reliability, scalability, and business impact.

Data4Good designs AI and data-driven solutions for nonprofit organizations. Here I built end data pipelines, production ML workflows, and FastAPI services to help nonprofit organizations make data driven operational and strategic decisions.

FCC is a multinational company and the current head of the FAST contractor consortium responsible for the Riyadh Metro, the world’s largest urban rail project outside of China. I led large scale engineering teams on the Riyadh Metro project, overseeing automation, monitoring, and control systems across stations and tunnels. And also managed technical coordination, contract negotiations, and compliance with international partners on mission critical infrastructure.

I managed various departments of the business including supervision of employees, production mapping and scheduling, process optimization, quality control and management, project management, procurement and oversaw HR related tasks involving candidate interviewing and shortlisting, employee onboarding and offboarding, as well as worked on research and development, organized exhibitions and handled sales.

I handled logistics for manufactured goods, deliveries, and ensured appropriate packaging and processing.