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@horstuser
I worked over 10 years with AI systems and teams with a strong focus on bringing measurable business value. Computer Vision, NLP, AI Agents
What I'm looking for
I've spent over 10 years building AI systems and teams with a strong focus on bringing measurable business value.
My work spans Computer Vision, NLP, and Generative AI, with deep hands-on experience deploying models at scale across fintech, telecom, retail, and government.
I've led teams and helped create end-to-end ML pipelines from raw data to real-time inference.
A few things I'm proud of:
- Raised fraud detection accuracy from 27% (human) to 92% (AI) at DETRAN
- Cut document processing costs by 70% at two different companies
I work across the full stack: model design, MLOps, observability (Grafana), and API
deployment (FastAPI, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS). My toolkit includes PyTorch, YO
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Project: Fraud Prevention using Voice, Image and Text
Since 2023
- Defined and implemented AI solutions to detect fraud in theoretical and practical driver's license tests
- Voice, image, and text data handling and analysis
- Applied object detection and Image Processing pipelines for anti-cheating solution
- Applied LLM-based prompt engineering to automate document validation at scale
Technologi
Project: Flexi Tutor AI Backbone
2022 - 2023 (1 year)
- Built an early GPT-4-powered production solution using pre-release access to the model
- Built the AI backbone for a student tutoring platform
- Use of RAG architecture and LLM prompt engineering
- Questions recognition and classification
- Implemented caching and semantic search to reduce LLM latency
Technologies: Python · TorchServe · Py
Activities:
- Use of AI techniques applied to solve image recognition problems
- Reduce of global costs with 3rd parties vendors with ML models
- Improvement of the company's app user experience through ML models
- Creation of Model Monitoring algorithms in the company's data platform
- Creation of Data Visualization dashboards and alerts to identify the need for retraining credit models
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Clients: Vivo, Latam, SalesForce, Ambev, Unilever, Sulamérica
Activities:
- Lead teams in research and development of AI techniques
- Use of AI to solve problems like image recognition, OCR and NLP
- Creation of hybrid Image/Text Classifiers
- Creation of Named Entity Recognition (NER) models with BERT
- Use of Deep Learning and Transfer Learning for medical images processing
- Use Data S
Activities:
- Member of Aura Project - The first chatbot in Brazil powered with BigData insights
- Created anomaly detection models to identify unwanted data usage for customers
- Created geo-localization models to identify and find 3G antennas without ID
- Creation of massive failure detection model to identify failures in the wired network
- Family clustering using different data sources of unst
Activities:
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Python
- One of the first Brazilian companies to use DeepLearning.
- Use of Caffe framework to detect home appliances images from e-commerce pages
- C++ for Image recognition
- Extract information from unstructured data like images and texts from e-commerce
- Low-Vision image processing for matching images regardless of rotatio
Automating SAP Processes with Robust, High-Performance, Zero-Error Scripts. Java Development.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Escola Politécnica da USP
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Gestão de Engenharia e Produtos
2019 - 2020
Escola Politécnica da USP
Master of Business Administration, Gestão de Engenharia e Produtos
2019 - 2020
MBA in Engineering and Product Management from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo.
FEI
Ph.D. Student, Artificial Intelligence
2013 - 2015
FEI
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Artificial Intelligence
2007 - 2009
FEI
Electric Engineer, Computing
2000 - 2004
Deutsche Berufsschule am Colegio Humboldt São Paulo
High School, High School
1987 - 1998
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
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