Barbara Barros
Senior AI Engineer at Flinn.ai
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolBarbara Barros is a Senior AI Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building production-grade machine learning systems. She has driven machine translation capabilities at Amazon, contributing to the open-source Sockeye NMT toolkit, and now applies that expertise to AI products at Flinn.ai. Her background combines dual bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and Mechatronics from USP and exchange studies at Humboldt-Universität, giving her a strong foundation in both software and systems-level engineering. Barbara has hands-on experience with hyperparameter optimization and neural architecture search from her time at SAP, which informs her practical approach to model tuning and deployment. Colleagues know her for bridging research and engineering—translating cutting-edge NLP models into reliable services. She brings a pragmatic, open-source-oriented mindset and a cross-disciplinary perspective that helps turn complex ML research into usable products.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at USP - Universidade de São PauloExchange Student Computer Science, Exchange Student Computer Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Portuguese, English, Spanish, German, Russian
Github Skills (39)
neural-machine-translation10
attention-mechanism10
attention-model10
encoder-decoder10
text-mining10
sequence-to-sequence10
translation9
machine-translation9
pytorch9
python9
machine-learning9
deep-learning9
transformer-architecture9
sequence9
nlp8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SO-I-2016/Doors
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:1 release, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
hikarikyuubi/farmhover
Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:35 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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