Summary
Breno Freitas is a Staff ML Engineer based in Ontario with 14 years of experience blending deep computer science and mathematical foundations into production machine learning and analytics at Shopify. He has progressed from front-end and backend engineering to leading data science teams and shaping company-wide dimensional and revenue models, and today focuses on LLM-driven merchant assistant products. His academic background includes award-winning undergraduate research in graph theory and an M.Sc. in Machine Learning, giving him a rare combination of theoretical rigor and applied modeling expertise. Known for quickly translating ambiguous problems into measurable product impact, he has delivered high-recall loss-detection models, led migrations of production prediction systems, and co-founded Shopify’s Analytics Engineering discipline. Outside work he pairs design sensibilities with technical craft—his personal site gained design recognition—and he still enjoys tackling graph-theoretic puzzles and maths-driven research.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at University of Toronto at Scarborough
Associate's degree, Information Technology, Associate's degree, Information Technology at FIEC - Fundação Indaiatubana de Educação e Cultura
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Universidade Federal de São Carlos
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, Japanese