Maximo Gurmendez holds a master's degree in computer science/AI from Northeastern University, where he attended as a Fulbright Scholar. Since 2009, he has been working with dataxu, tackling the problem of ML for large datasets. He's also the Founder and Chief Engineer of Montevideo Labs (a data science and engineering consultancy). Additionally, Maximo is a computer science professor at the University of Montevideo and is director of its data science for business program. In 2019 Maximo co-wrote the book "Mastering Machine Learning on AWS" with Dr. Saket Mengle.