Barbara Neves
Forward Deployed AI ML Engineering Lead at Multimodal
Ceará, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolBarbara Neves is a Forward Deployed AI/ML Engineering Lead and NLP research scientist with nine years of experience designing and shipping LLM-powered systems for regulated, high-stakes environments. She blends deep academic roots in textual representations and embeddings with hands-on production expertise—owning solution architecture, model evaluation, and deployment across the full client lifecycle from sales discovery to live operations. Known for operationalizing agentic and OCR-free workflows, she consistently translates ambiguous business problems into scalable, reliable AI that delivers measurable results. Barbara has led cross-functional teams, mentored researchers, and contributed to public-sector transparency projects using RAG-augmented chatbots, reflecting her ability to bridge research, product strategy, and impact. Based in Ceará, Brazil, she is also an active advocate for diversity in tech and a member of the Brazilian Women in NLP community.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Federal University of Ceara
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
rio8
natural-language-processing5
nlp5
deep-learning4
data-science4
campus3
css1
javascript1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
barbaraneves/multi-label-stratification-skmultilearn
Mar 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
barbaraneves/gender-bias-in-virtual-assistants
Jul 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:48 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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