About Us
The leading Artificial Intelligence and
data science experts
delivering the impossible
Who We Are
Every member of the team is educated to Masters, PhD, or above. We are exposed to a wide variety of clients, projects, tools and solutions. We are motivated by the difficulty of the challenge and the desire to be at the spear-point of an exploding industry of software, science and new knowledge.
We source our talent from the world’s leading research and academic institutions. Every Data Spartan is treated equally, has direct input into the business and is supported with the opportunity to work, study, create new products or enterprises within our ecosystem.
How We Work
The experience, education and motivation of our team ensures we deliver every time we are engaged. DataSpartan’s capabilities are not defined by the technology stacks we use, but by our team’s imagination and ability to creatively solve impossible problems.
We are truly agnostic on the tools we utilise to achieve results. As experts in our craft, we simply pick the best systems for the job in hand, or adapt to the tools our clients present us with. Every member of the team is fluent in multiple software languages and methodologies with experts available on hand for any major data, architecture and ML and AI systems.
DataSpartan Office Locations
London, UK
A Coruña, SPAIN
Our Story
2015
DataSpartan is founded. First PoCs in the area of Data Analytics, Quantitative Finance and Operational Risk with financial institutions.
2017
Expansion of the team and completion of new projects in the area of Quantitative Finance. Deployed the core team of the Automated Statistical Arbitrage team in top Investment Bank. Lead Hackathons to bring brand awareness and recruit high quality talent.
2018
More successful projects with new investment banks in the area of Data Science. New ML solutions were deployed in Risk and Data Analytics departments. The DataSpartan team built a new innovative Blockchain-based solution for German Investment bank for better trade reconciliation. Lead women’s networking in finance event with a leading swiss bank.
2019
DataSpartan was part of the new innovation lab of the biggest French investment bank. Built the first DataLake for Spanish investment bank. Built the first AI solution that understands Law quotes with a leading British Law Firm.
2020
Built and applied cutting edge Machine Learning research with a number of later series Startups in the area of Natural Language Processing. First collaboration with a leading Chip semiconductor company to develop hardware accelerated trading libraries.
2021
Researched and reviewed new security protocols for a leading Blockchain Solution company. Alpha version of DataSpartan NLP product was deployed and used by first customers. Generated new NLP-based algorithms for better understanding clients financial risks. Worked with new startups to apply NLP and behavioural AI to their platform.
Our Leadership
Leslie Kanthan
Co-Founder and Partner
PhD in Machine Learning,
University College London
Leslie is an expert in quantitative research, graph theory and efficient similarity search techniques. His previous work in locality sensitive hashing now powers Uber in obtaining similar trips. Before founding DataSpartan, Leslie worked with Bank of America, Commerzbank and Credit Suisse in Quantitative Research.
David Martinez
CSO and Co-Founder
PhD in Computer Science and AI,
University College London
David is a key leader in machine learning modelling, big-data ingestion and practical usage and application of AI systems. He says, “I am convinced that technology and automation will keep bringing solutions to the most challenging problems in society. Being part of the change is what keeps me and the Spartans moving.”
Carlos Perez Freire
CIO, Head of Architecture
MScRes in Telematics, University of Vigo;
MS in Computer Engineering,
Universidade de A Coruna
Carlos has a decade of experience in building large corporate architecture environments. With certifications in AI frameworks and methodologies, multiple programming languages, and big data, Carlos is one of our senior developers and project leaders.
Dr Victor Roris
Head of Engineering and NLP
PhD in Telematics Engineering,
Universidade de Vigo
With his ‘cum laude’ academic background and PhD in Telematics Engineering, Victor had 13 years experience within commercial R&D environments before bringing his specialist programming and NLP skills to DataSpartan.
Amparo Alonso
Advisor
Amparo works to improve business performance through strategic and productivity initiatives at DataSpartan. She is currently President of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (AEPIA). As a Professor at Spain’s Universidad de A Coruna, she leads the Laboratory for the Investigation and Development of Artificial Intelligence (LIDIA). Amparo is the 1998 recipient of the prestigious L’Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women In Science in Spain.
Paco Nathan
Advisor
MS in Computer Science (Systems),
Stanford University
A former NASA engineer, Paco brings 10+ years leading innovative Data teams and 25+ years in the technology industry to DataSpartan. He is a Data Scientist for Concurrent in San Francisco and a Committer on the Cascading open source project. His background is in math, statistics and distributed computer. He has expertise in Hadoop, R, AWS, predictive analytics, machine learning, NLP, and is extensively published in both Data Science and AI computing.
Erica Santos Rial
Senior Software Engineer
Erica is experienced in research, design and she writes new software programs and computer operating systems. Erica evaluates the software and systems that make computers and hardware work. She also develops existing programs by analysing and identifying areas for modification.
Myriam Yazidi Benhalal
Business and Marketing Analyst
Myriam’s main responsibility includes exploring market trends and new opportunities. She works to implement strategic initiatives to create opportunities and support growth at DataSpartan. As part of her operations and development responsibilities, Myriam coordinates our internship and placement programme for graduates and undergraduates with Russell Group universities.
Some of our Interns
Kaan Yolsever
Intern in Statistical Science
MSc student, in Statistical Science
University of Oxford
Kaan is working on a custom automated question answering algorithm that feeds from various sources. He did an extensive literature review on the state-of-the-art models for this purpose and have been creating data sets and benchmarking our algorithm against the most recent research results.
Ryan Hunt
Intern in Computer Science
Undergraduate in Computer Science
University of Oxford
Ryan is a Computer Science student working in software engineering and machine learning for DataSpartan. He has years of experience with coding in multiple languages. Working alongside senior members of the team, he is developing a product to find, extract and classify custom data from a large volume of documents.
Henrique Aguiar
Intern in Data Science
DPhil in Health Data Science
University of Oxford
Henrique is a Computer Science PhD student. He has multiple years of experience in machine learning and Data Science across a wide range of industries and applications. Collaborating with the rest of the Data Science team for the main product pipeline, he is researching and developing techniques with regards to data imbalance.
Siddartha Nath
Intern in Data Science
BSc Mathematics Graduate Imperial College London, specialised in Statistics.
Siddartha is highly interested in Data Science, Quantitative Research and EdTech. When not involved in academia, I enjoy playing sports, PC-Gaming and Performing Arts. I am always open to meeting new people, learning new things and taking on difficult challenges!