I am Felipe Santibañez-Leal, a business and technology manager focused on industrial transformation, based in Santiago, Chile.

Business and technology manager focused on improving industrial performance through digital transformation. I lead multidisciplinary teams and advanced analytics initiatives, aligning business priorities with operational outcomes. My work spans portfolio planning, stakeholder coordination, project delivery, and the adoption of AI and digital solutions - from business case through implementation and continuous improvement.

At Accenture Industry X, I work as Industrial & Functional Decision Science Associate Manager, leading advanced analytics and digital transformation initiatives for industrial operations.

Leadership and delivery

• Business alignment and portfolio prioritization
• Multidisciplinary team leadership and stakeholder coordination
• Project delivery, operational adoption, and continuous improvement
• Advanced analytics, AI, and digital solutions for industrial performance

What I am building now

Outside the day job I build and ship software products end to end. Everything below is live, open to inspect, and documented:

• Faena, a hub of browser-native mining-analytics tools, 6 live today: RotorVitals, ChargeCascade, DispatchLab, ChancaDEM, FrothSeg and StockTwin, with 8 more in active development: CutoffGrade, TailWatch, CoreLog, PitForge, ProspectMap, FragmentIQ, PhaseFlow and TruckVitals. Each is an independent app with real methods running client-side and an offline precompute lane.
• Research labs that explore one method family end to end, on real data where it exists: ChronoScope (a forecasting atlas with a real foundation-model tier), QLab, PINN-Lab, SimLab, Lidar3D, Pulso, CardioPINN and CAOS Seismic.
• Six Python packages on PyPI: minehaulsim, oreblocks, preqts, pygeotypes, adra and geoscena.
• Agentic systems: Mantia, an anonymized hub of agentic tools oriented to SAP Plant Maintenance, and ADRA, an adversarial dev-review engine that tries to refute its own findings before reporting them.

One rule ties them together: every tool publishes its own limits, including the cases where the learned model loses to the classical method. The full catalogue is at fasl-work.com/portfolio, and the running engineering notes are in the rollings.

Industry experience

I have delivered tangible KPI improvements across multiple sectors:

• Mining operations: Fleet optimization reducing unplanned stoppages; concentrator initiatives delivering +100 TPH in SAG milling throughput and measurable flotation recovery gains
• Manufacturing: Advanced analytics projects improving production by 10-15%
• Environmental management: Proactive monitoring and mitigation strategies achieving 15% reduction in critical environmental alerts
• Engineering systems: Workflows for GPR, hyperspectral, and magnetometry data collection accelerated from days to hours

Key clients and companies include CODELCO, Minera Centinela, and various mining and industrial operations across Chile.

My origins

I come from southern Chile, where I grew up on a hill, a bit isolated from civilization, but surrounded by nature, cliffs, forests, and beaches.

I received my Ph.D. from the School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Chile, a Postgraduate Diploma in Medical Informatics jointly from the University of Chile and the University of Heidelberg, and my B.Sc. in Electronic Civil Engineering from the Universidad de Concepción. The campus of the Universidad de Concepción is also surrounded by nature.

I also hold an Industrial Electronics Technician degree from the High Technology Educational Center CEAT, located in San Pedro de la Paz, surrounded by a lagoon and a small hill.