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Pedro Almeida

@plbalmeida

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Hey! I'm Pedro, I've been looking forward to an ML/AI Engineer position, I'm based in Brazil.

Brazil

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What I'm looking for

I seek a challenging role that allows me to apply my ML/AI skills to solve complex problems. I value a collaborative environment promoting continuous learning and ethical AI practices. I wish to see the direct impact of my work, maintaining a work-life balance. Lastly, I desire stability and opportunities for career advancement.

Data Scientist with 5 years of experience in the industrial, financial and retail sectors. Master's degree candidate in Sustainability at Universidade de São Paulo, research in machine learning applied to environmental sciences and sustainability. AWS certified as Cloud Practitioner, Solutions Architect Associate and Machine Learning Specialty. Coursing postgraduate on Machine Learning in Production at Universidade Federal de São Carlos.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Data Scientist

Current

BRQ Digital Solutions

Jul 2022 - Present (2 years 11 months)

- AWS Glue service with pyspark to extract, transform and load data (ETL) for wholesale bank Itaú BBA. Generating leads and warnings of the bank clients.

ETL AWS Glue Data Modeling Data Manipulation Amazon SageMaker AWS CloudFormation SQL Pyspark S3 Terraform AWS Lambda

Analytics/AI/ML Solutions Architect

dataRain

Jan 2022 - Jun 2022 (5 months)

- Data ingestion using AWS cloud services like Lambda, S3, API Gateway and python to extract, transform and load data (ETL)

Data Lake AWS API Gateway S3 AWS Lambda AWS Glue Terraform Python Git AWS CloudFormation

Data Scientist

Nestlé

Apr 2021 - Jan 2022 (9 months)

Forecast of competitor company prices (~100k products) using GradientBoosting + Bayesian optimization with Hyperopt and development of feature engineer pipeline with pyspark, ~40% of predictions with MAPE below 5%, and 20% of predictions between 5% and 10% MAPE
- Forecast sellout sales of all Nestlé categories

Python Regression Models Forecasting Azure Databricks Data Engineering Data Science Machine Learning SQL MLFlow Pyspark

Data Scientist

Semantix

Jun 2019 - Apr 2021 (1 year 10 months)

- Improvement of the industrial process for manufacturing roof tiles at Brasilit (Saint-Gobain group) applying supervised machine learning regression and classification models returning savings of R$5Mi (~U$1Mi)
- Technical support in an OCR project for documents at Bradesco Bank
- Implementation of forecasting models for IT resources (AIOps) and predictive alerts at Santander Bank