Eduardo Morales
Senior Software Architect at IBM · Miami, Florida
Eduardo Morales is a senior software architect and AI engineer at IBM, based in Miami, Florida. He builds production generative AI experiences for ESPN, Wimbledon, the US Open, the Masters and the GRAMMYs, combining React and TypeScript frontends with Python, NLP and cloud delivery. He is an IBM-certified Expert Developer, an ACM KDD author and presenter, and an inventor on 15+ U.S. patents.
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Experience
- IBM: Senior Software Architect, April 2021–present. Previously Advisory, Staff and Associate Software Engineer, and Software Engineer Intern from May 2018 to January 2020.
- Google: Software Engineer Intern, May 2020–January 2021.
- Florida International University: Research Assistant, January 2020–September 2025.
- Waleteros Fintech: Junior Software Developer, November 2016–May 2018.
Selected work
- Wimbledon and US Open Match Chat (IBM, 2025): Led the frontend of the AI assistant that answers fans' questions during live Wimbledon matches and supervised its reuse at the US Open. Together they reached nearly 1 million unique users.
- ESPN Fantasy Football (IBM): Led the rewrite of a decade-old insights widget, which now loads 4x faster, in about 2 seconds, at a tenth of the size. Built 100+ automated checks that run every 15 minutes.
- The Masters (IBM, 2025): Led data science and search for the Video Moments Vault and the delivery of Spanish AI commentary.
- The GRAMMYs (IBM): Contributed to the pipeline that selects key facts about GRAMMY nominees for live television and website coverage.
- Google COVID-19 (Google): Built an app to explore COVID-19 correlations in Google's knowledge graph and automated the ingestion of datasets from 1,000+ pages.
- Florida International University research: Created a maternal and infant health research app, maintained by 60+ students he mentored, and built models that predict wine toxin levels for research backed by a $250,000 USDA grant.
Clients and projects
ESPN Fantasy Football (IBM), The Masters (IBM), US Open (IBM), FOX Sports (IBM), The Grammys (IBM), Wimbledon (IBM), Ferrari (IBM), Schneider Electric (IBM), Google COVID-19 (Google), Flanks Fintech (Freelance), Zar del Fitness (Freelance).
Research and inventions
Eduardo's work includes 15+ U.S. patents, 1 trade secret and 6 publications, with papers at ACM KDD, ACM Multimedia and JMIR. Research topics include generative AI, large language models, natural language processing, acoustic event detection, haptic interfaces, wine toxins and maternal and infant health.
- Match Chat: Real Time Generative AI and Generative Computing for Tennis: Co-author, arXiv preprint, 2025.
- Large Scale Generative AI Text Applied to Sports and Music: Co-author and presenter, ACM KDD 2024, Barcelona.
- Forecasting Sound in a Live Performance to Determine Microphone Position: Co-inventor, U.S. Patent 10,939,203, granted 2021.
Recognition
- IBM Corporate Technical Award (2025), for near real-time generative AI for live events.
- IBM Patent Plateau Awards: first (2021), second (2023) and third (2024).
- IBM Developer Profession: Level 3 Expert.
- IBM Top Performer in every review since joining.
- Speaker at 2 ACM conferences.
Skills
Python, TypeScript, Next.JS, Cloud, Deep Learning, React Native, OpenShift, NoSQL, SQL, System Design, Distributed Systems, API Design, Kafka, AIOps, UI/UX.
Education and languages
- B.S. in Computer Science, Florida International University.
- English, Spanish and Catalan, with native proficiency.