Summary
Alex Farias is a Data Product & AI consultant based in São Paulo with over a decade of hands-on experience designing data platforms, analytics products, and AI-driven automations for fintech and digital businesses. He has led data platform and web analytics transformations at major Brazilian retailers, cutting web analytics costs by an order of magnitude while building teams and governance practices. Skilled at bridging product, engineering and business, Alex defines roadmaps, integrates APIs, and implements scalable ingestion and analytics solutions that enable data-driven decision making. His background spans roles from scientific research in unsupervised financial-news labeling to pragmatic product delivery, giving him both quantitative rigor and executional focus. Now operating as an independent consultant, he combines strategic data strategy with tactical platform builds and agile product processes to accelerate value from data and AI. An interesting facet of his profile is experience presenting DeFi payment proof-of-concept work at an international blockchain conference, showing a curiosity for emerging payment and tokenization models.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MBA in Macroeconomics & Portfolio Management with Paulo Guedes, Business/Managerial Economics, MBA in Macroeconomics & Portfolio Management with Paulo Guedes, Business/Managerial Economics at Faculdade Hub
Bachelor of Information Systems, Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor of Information Systems, Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence at Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul
Computer Technician, Software Engineering, Computer Technician, Software Engineering at CEETEPS - Ilha Solteira
Portuguese, English, Spanish