Alan Prando
Data Science Senior Manager
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolAlan Prando is a data science and engineering leader with 18+ years of experience building scalable AI-driven search, recommendation, and ad systems for e-commerce and enterprise platforms. He co-founded Biggy, led its engineering and product efforts through an acquisition by VTEX, and subsequently scaled Search, Recommendation and Ads teams while partnering with C-level executives on product vision and M&A integrations. With a Master’s focused on recommender systems and peer-reviewed publications, he uniquely blends academic research with hands-on architecture and production ML deployment. He has deep hands-on experience across the stack—Scala, Spark, Hadoop ecosystem, Redis, Kafka, IaC with Ansible/Terraform—and a proven track record of turning lean teams into high-impact organizations. Alan has also taught data mining in a postgraduate Big Data program, reflecting his commitment to mentoring the next generation of practitioners. Based in São Paulo, he is now leading data science initiatives at Nubank, bringing both entrepreneurial grit and enterprise-scale delivery.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree in Computer Engineering Recommender System, Master's Degree in Computer Engineering Recommender System at Instituto de Pesquisas TecnológicasBachelor Degree in Information Systems Information Technology, Bachelor Degree in Information Systems Information Technology at Centro Universitário Fundação Santo André
English, Portuguese, Spanish
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Github Skills (11)
backend7
app-search6
brasil6
react6
gatsbyjs4
maven4
java4
gatsby4
slack4
ecommerce3
graphql2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
aprando/hadoop-hbase-examples
Nov 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:79 commits, 83 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
aprando/text-mining-using-R
Jun 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 9 years 10 months
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