Carlos, Co-Founder and CTO of Malted AI, is a former Research Scientist at Meta, where he focused on open-source large language models (LLMs) and reasoning. He led the winning Alexa Challenge Team, driving product and AI innovation. His PhD research taught LLMs to use external systems—such as databases and calculators—to solve complex multi-step problems. Carlos has published work on code generation, reasoning, and conversational AI in leading venues including EMNLP, SIGIR, and TREC