Cassio Penachin
Senior Data Science Manager
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolCassio Penachin is a Senior Data Science Manager based in Waterloo with 14 years of hands-on experience leading AI, data science and software engineering teams across enterprise and startup settings. He combines deep technical fluency—from core back-end contributions to projects like the OpenCog Atomspace graph system—to strategic technology management at Shopify, applying methods from bioinformatics to quant finance and e-commerce. A leader who pairs an MBA with substantial research training (PhD coursework) and a developer’s mindset, he excels at translating complex models and research prototypes into production-ready systems. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he brings entrepreneurship and cross-domain curiosity to build scalable AI products and mentor high-performing teams.
14 years of coding experience
MBA, MBA at Ibmec Business SchoolB. Sc., B. Sc. at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Github Skills (10)
graph-database10
atomic10
atomics10
scheme9
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
knowledge-representation7
query-engine7
relational-databases6
logic-programming5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
opencog/atomspace
Sep 2015 - Aug 2018
The OpenCog (hyper-)graph database and graph rewriting system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 28 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Cassio primarily focused on modifying core Atomspace functionalities by making changes to the `Node.cc` and `Link.cc` files. They reverted a previous change related to printing AtomTable UUIDs in the `toShortString` method. The user also addressed missing module imports in various Scheme example files, specifically integrating `opencog` and `opencog exec` modules. Furthermore, the user merged branch updates and fixed issues within a Scheme example file.
logic-programmingopencogknowledge-baseedgedbknowledge-graph
pennachin/opencog
May 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:35 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 1 month
artificial-general-intelligenceintegratedagiartificialmachine-learning
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