Summary
André Yai is a Machine Learning Platform (MLOps) leader with 11 years of experience and 8+ years focused on taking ML projects from PoC to production, specializing in AWS/Azure platforms, CI/CD, feature stores and GenAI integrations. He has built and scaled ML platforms that migrated 30+ projects to the cloud and delivered solutions that contributed to over $30M in savings across banking and healthcare clients. A multi-cloud certified practitioner (5× AWS, Azure Data Scientist, Databricks LLM Certified), André blends hands-on engineering—Python, SQL, big data—and orchestration with product-minded automation for model monitoring and observability. At BRQ he delivered innovative GenAI pipelines (SQL-from-NL, PDF multimodal extraction and benchmarking across GPT/Gemini/Claude/LLaMA) and a feature store engine to accelerate data science reuse. Based in São Paulo, he combines technical depth with a track record of operationalizing high-volume LLM and fraud-detection systems, and is active in the AWS community as a GenAI subject matter expert.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Data Science & Analytics, MBA Data Science & Analytics at MBA USP/Esalq
Informatics, Informatics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
Data Analyst Nanodegree, Data Analyst Nanodegree at Udacity
High School, High School at Colégio Bandeirantes
Portuguese, English, German, Spanish