Barbara Barbosa
Lead Data Scientist
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolBarbara Barbosa is a lead data scientist and people leader with 12 years of experience building ML-driven products and scaling data teams across credit, wholesale and health insurance. Currently leading data science at Just Eat Takeaway.com after heading Data at CarePay International, she combines hands-on skills in Python, SQL/NoSQL and NLP with a track record of shipping production models that drive business and social impact. Her background spans software engineering to senior data science management at Creditas and Orderchamp, giving her fluency across the end-to-end ML lifecycle and data infrastructure. She holds a master's in Information Systems from Universidade de São Paulo with an NLP monograph published at a national conference, and multiple industry certifications. Fluent in Portuguese and English and based in Amsterdam, she is passionate about using data for social good and mentoring teams through complex product and deployment challenges. A less obvious strength: she pairs academic NLP expertise with practical microservice and integration experience from her early software-engineering roles, enabling pragmatic, production-ready solutions.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Colégio São SabasETEC São PauloEngenharia de Computação Ciência da Computação, Engenharia de Computação Ciência da Computação at Universidade Nova de LisboaMaster's degree Information Systems Natural Language Processing, Master's degree Information Systems Natural Language Processing at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
Portuguese, English, French
Github Skills (52)
javascript10
java10
ruby10
ember10
word2vec9
lda9
fasttext9
word-embeddings9
data-mining9
meta-learning9
mongoid9
transition9
topic-modeling9
nlp8
gensim8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Creditas/challenge
May 2017 - Jun 2019
Team recruiting challenges
Contributions:21 commits, 7 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 years 1 month
hiringjavascriptrubyrecruitingember
bahbbc/presentations
Jun 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:29 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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