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I worked over 10 years with AI systems and teams with a strong focus on bringing measurable business value. Computer Vision, NLP, AI Agents

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What I'm looking for

I'm open to remote AI lead and architect roles where I can build and scale production Generative AI, computer vision, NLP, and MLOps solutions.

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

Blick Technologies logoBT
Current

Artificial Intelligence Architect

Jan 2022 - Present (4 years 8 months)

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

CK-12 Foundation logoCF

Artificial Intelligence Specialist

Jan 2022 - Dec 2022 (11 months)

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

Creditas logoCR

Machine Learning Specialist

Sep 2021 - Sep 2022 (1 year)

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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NTT DATA logoND

Data Science & Analytics Leader

Jan 2018 - Oct 2021 (3 years 9 months)

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

Telefônica Brasil logoTB

Data Science Specialist

Oct 2015 - Nov 2017 (2 years 1 month)

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

boolabs logoBO

Data Scientist

Feb 2015 - Oct 2015 (8 months)

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

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

EU

Escola Politécnica da USP

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Gestão de Engenharia e Produtos

2019 - 2020

Escola Politécnica da USP logoEU

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.

FE

FEI

Ph.D. Student, Artificial Intelligence

2013 - 2015

FE

FEI

Master of Science (M.Sc.), Artificial Intelligence

2007 - 2009

FE

FEI

Electric Engineer, Computing

2000 - 2004

DP

Deutsche Berufsschule am Colegio Humboldt São Paulo

High School, High School

1987 - 1998

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