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I am a data scientist with 8+ years of experience building NLP and machine learning solutions in high-impact government environments. I translate mission-critical challenges into end-to-end analytic solutions and enjoy turning complex data into actionable insights for decision-makers. I have led cross-functional teams to deliver analytics that informed diplomatic outreach, economic sanctions, and fraud investigations, and I thrive in fast-paced environments where experimentation and rigorous evaluation drive impactful outcomes.…I am a data scientist with 8+ years of experience building NLP and machine learning solutions in high-impact government environments. I translate mission-critical challenges into end-to-end analytic solutions and enjoy turning complex data into actionable insights for decision-makers. I have led cross-functional teams to deliver analytics that informed diplomatic outreach, economic sanctions, and fraud investigations, and I thrive in fast-paced environments where experimentation and rigorous evaluation drive impactful outcomes.

Alfonso Panlilio

Data Scientist, AI Engineer, AI Developer, +2

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I am a data scientist with 8+ years of experience building NLP and machine learning solutions in high-impact government environments. I translate mission-critical challenges into end-to-end analytic solutions and enjoy turning complex data into actionable insights for decision-makers. I have led cross-functional teams to deliver analytics that informed diplomatic outreach, economic sanctions, and fraud investigations, and I thrive in fast-paced environments where experimentation and rigorous evaluation drive impactful outcomes.…I am a data scientist with 8+ years of experience building NLP and machine learning solutions in high-impact government environments. I translate mission-critical challenges into end-to-end analytic solutions and enjoy turning complex data into actionable insights for decision-makers. I have led cross-functional teams to deliver analytics that informed diplomatic outreach, economic sanctions, and fraud investigations, and I thrive in fast-paced environments where experimentation and rigorous evaluation drive impactful outcomes.

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I am a data scientist with 8+ years of experience building NLP and machine learning solutions in high-impact government environments. I translate mission-critical challenges into end-to-end analytic solutions and enjoy turning complex data into actionable insights for decision-makers.

I have led cross-functional teams to deliver analytics that informed diplomatic outreach, economic sanctions, and fraud investigations, and I thrive in fast-paced environments where experimentation and rigorous evaluation drive impactful outcomes.

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Senior Consultant - Lead Data Scientist (Department of State) at Deloitte

May 1, 2021 - December 1, 2024

Led a 6-person data science team and architected a scalable Python-based NLP framework for evidence and lead generation using large-scale news scraping, entity detection, relation extraction, and models such as SpaCy, BERT, and REBEL. Trained and evaluated a relation extraction model, improving precision and recall via systematic error analysis and iterative optimization. Built Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines with LangChain to manage document ingestion, embeddings, vector search, prompt engineering, and structured outputs; deployed on a Kubernetes cluster. Generated entity-centric structured summaries to support diplomatic outreach and sanctions decisions.

Consultant II - Data Scientist (Veteran Affairs - Rapid Prototyping Lab) at ERPi

September 1, 2018 - May 1, 2021

Rapidly developed proof-of-concept NLP analyses for VA hospital appointment survey comments, mapped and categorized comments to service elements, and applied sentiment analysis to label positive, negative, and neutral sentiments; defined processes for continuous evaluation and improvement; contributed to a white paper documenting results and opportunities for growth.

Infrastructure and Solutions Engineer at Freddie Mac

January 1, 2014 - September 1, 2018

Maintained, deployed, and developed enterprise tools for a Tier 4 support team; queried enterprise endpoint data to identify software and version compliance; served as the primary administrator of a profile management system that automates desktop profiles and backups; created and deployed package software for automated enterprise integration, increasing workstation compliance from 10% to 90% within 3–4 weeks.