# Gonzalo López Gil

Data Governance & AI Consultant · Spanish Ministry of Defence

Working at the intersection of **data governance**, **AI adoption** and **data-centric transformation** in defence. From CDO advisory to hands-on agentic AI workflows for AI-ready data organisations.

## Contact

- Email: [gonzalo.lopez.gil@gmail.com](mailto:gonzalo.lopez.gil@gmail.com)
- Phone: [+34 679 070 796](tel:+34679070796)
- Nationality: Spanish
- LinkedIn: [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gonzalopezgil)
- GitHub: [GitHub](https://www.github.com/gonzalopezgil)
- Website: [Website](https://gonza.tech)

## Experience

### Data Governance & AI Consultant

Isdefe · Spanish Ministry of Defence · Data Office | Sept. 2024 – Present | Madrid, Spain

- Advised the **Chief Data Officer** on Data & AI strategy, governance and adoption.
- Developed the **Data Reference Architecture**, based on NATO's architecture framework and DAMA-DMBOK.
- Implemented a **Data Catalogue** to enable the Armed Forces to publish Data Products.
- Participated in the **NATO Writing Team** for a Federated Data Catalogue for the Alliance.
- Built **agentic AI workflows** with on-premises LLMs for secure knowledge retrieval and document generation.
- Conducted **workshops** with stakeholders to support data-centric and AI adoption.

### Data & Software Engineering Intern

Deimos Space | Feb. 2023 – Aug. 2023 | Madrid, Spain

- Developed **Python data pipelines** and **ETL workflows** to collect, process and analyse data.
- Built Java & Spring Boot **backend services** integrating computer-vision outputs into data-driven applications.
- Modelled **geospatial datasets** with **SQL** to support **dashboards**, spatial analytics and operational workflows.

## Education

### MSc in Data Analytics

Dublin City University · First Class Honours | Sept. 2023 – Aug. 2024 | Dublin, Ireland

- Foundation in data science, machine learning, deep learning, cloud computing and data engineering.

### BSc in Computer Science

University of Alcalá | Sept. 2019 – June 2023 | Madrid, Spain

- Foundation in software engineering, programming, algorithms, databases and artificial intelligence.

## Projects & Research

### Agentic AI: LLM Tooling

Open Source | 2025 – Present

- Built CLI & MCP tools in Python for LLM agents to query regulatory knowledge bases through RAG workflows.

### Deep Learning Models for Stock Market Time Series Prediction

Master's Dissertation · First Class Honours | 2024

- Applied research on deep learning models for financial time-series forecasting and developed xLSTM-TS in Python.

### Universal Web Scraping GUI for Data Extraction

Final Year Project · Awarded with Distinction | 2023

- Built a Python & JavaScript GUI for extracting structured web data through visual element selection.

## Languages

- Spanish: Native
- English: C2
- French: B1

## Certifications

- AI Governance, Management & Quality (University of Castilla-La Mancha, 2026)
- Develop AI Solutions in Azure (Microsoft, 2026)
- Data Governance with IBM Knowledge Catalog (IBM, 2025)
- Data Engineering on Google Cloud Platform (Google, 2025)
- Data Governance, Management & Quality (DQTeam, 2024)
- C1 Advanced (Cambridge English, 2023)

## Skills

- **AI & Analytics:** agentic AI, data science, local AI, LLMs, deep learning, NLP, computer vision, RAG
- **Data & Architecture:** data engineering, ETL, SQL, data catalogues, metadata, data products, data architecture
- **Engineering & Cloud:** Python, Java, backend development, Docker, Git, AWS, Azure, GCP
- **Advisory & Adoption:** stakeholder engagement, workshops, change management, technical communication