Professional Experience

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Hurb

Dec 2021 – Sept 2024 (2 years and 9 months)

  • Leadership: Directed Hurb's experimentation program, fostering a culture of innovation and data-driven decision-making.
  • Collaboration: Worked cross-functionally with product, engineering, and data science teams to implement scalable experimentation solutions (feature flags, A/B tests, and multi-armed badint algorithms).
  • Technical Expertise and Innovation: Led the project to employ Large Language Models to solve multiple tasks in the legal department, including to predict civil lawsuit outcomes with 83% accuracy in production.

Data Scientist (Internship), Murabei

Oct 2020 – April 2021 (7 months)

  • Model Development: Designed and trained generalized linear and ensemble models for SME credit analysis using scikit-learn.
  • Deployment: Model deployed through API gateway and serverless cloud computing in Google Cloud Platform.

R&D Engineer (Internship), TechnipFMC

May 2021 – Oct 2021 (7 months)

  • Hardware Design: Designed PCBs for an underwater robotic manipulator, ensuring robust power and signal integrity.

Research Experience

Undergraduate Researcher, Signal Processing Lab, UFRJ

August 2020 – December 2021 (1 year and 5 months)

  • Developed a Computer-Aided Diagnosis system for tuberculosis from chest X-ray images, improving diagnostic accuracy to 86%.
  • Implemented a Hierarchical Mixture of Experts model using SVMs for image quality assessment in public health digitization, achieving F1 of 0.91.

Undergraduate Researcher, Control and Automation Lab, UFRJ

Mar 2018 – Jun 2019 (1 year and 4 months)

  • Designed electronic systems for a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) for underwater exploration.
  • Prototyped PCBs for subsea use with Altium Designer, optimizing underwater thruster controls, cameras, and sensors for precision and reliability.
  • Developed C++ routines for ROV communication and control, enabling SPI data interfacing between AVR microcontrollers to allow vehicle coordination.

Extracurricular Activities

Team Lead, MinervaBots Robotics Team

April 2017 – January 2020 (2 years and 9 months)

  • Led the team to win 17 trophies in 6 categories over three years.
  • Secured second place among American teams in the autonomous category at the 2019 All Japan Robot-Sumo Tournament in Tokyo.
  • Managed a cross-functional team of mechanical, control and electrical engineers in developing an autonomous sumo robot.

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