Alexandre Mafra is an AI Engineer at Google Cloud in São Paulo with 10 years of experience building production-ready AI and data solutions across enterprise and consumer domains. He specializes in Generative AI, Vector Search and Retrieval-Augmented Generation, helping customers with architecture, migration, capacity planning and operational best practices. Previously he led data and engineering teams as Senior Director at Gympass and founded B2W Tech Labs after his startup Tarkena was acquired, where he built high-performance search engines and ML-driven recommendation and CLV systems. His background spans applied research (master’s in AI and partial PhD work), product-focused experimentation (voice UX, machine translation, drones) and marketing-science-driven statistical modeling for large Latin American customers. Comfortable bridging research, engineering and business, he’s known for turning experimental prototypes into scalable data products that drive long-term metrics.
10 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (incomplete) Inteligência Artificial, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (incomplete) Inteligência Artificial at Escola Politécnica da USP
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