About Miguel Sanda
I design and ship AI, data, and Django systems for high-stakes domains — electric utilities, industrial IoT, and financially-driven products.
Professional summary
Results-driven Data Science Leader and Power Systems Consultant with 20+ years delivering AI/ML, data engineering, and production platforms across energy, utilities, packaging, and finance. Proven at leading cross-functional teams, architecting Big Data and OT integration platforms, and translating technical work into multimillion-dollar outcomes, downtime reductions, and cybersecurity-ready data capabilities.
Current focus
- Leading agentic AI implementations for the power industry
- Domain-specific agent platforms with compliance, security, and OT lineage
- Django Ledger ecosystem growth and custom fintech implementations
- Select consulting gigs: Django, data science, agile delivery leadership
Selected experience
- Duke Energy — OT Integration (“Backpack”) across DEC/DEP/DEM/DEF; agentic AI platform architecture
- Sealed Air — Data Science Manager; Precision program enabling ~$575K ARR; 50% cloud cost reduction
- Duke Energy — Senior DS; MAIFI Spark pipelines, CLIE power flow, PyTorch anomaly detection, TigerGraph
- Westinghouse — $10B project financial forecasting model; +70% plan accuracy
Education & credentials
- MBA – Data Science, UNC Charlotte
- M.Eng – Project Management, University of Florida
- B.S. – Civil Engineering, Carabobo University
- PMP · EIT · U.S. Patent US-20220115867-A1 (co-inventor)