Daniel Sakuma
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Nubank
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolDaniel Sakuma is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer based in São Paulo with 11 years of experience building and operationalizing ML-driven products across fintech, e-commerce and fraud detection. He currently contributes to Nubank's ML stack and has a hands-on background designing biometric 2FA, face-matching and liveness systems, as well as deploying fraud models in production using Python, Flask, Docker and AWS serverless services. Earlier roles span data engineering (Airflow, Spark, S3, Athena) and embedded security solutions, reflecting a rare blend of model development, data pipelines and cloud-native deployment. He holds an Information Systems degree from Universidade de São Paulo and has pursued graduate work in AI and Computer Vision, bringing both practical production chops and research-minded rigor to applied ML problems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Telecommunications Technician, Telecommunications Technician at ETEC Getúlio VargasUniversity of São PauloMaintenance Electrician, Maintenance Electrician at Senai São Paulo
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Github Skills (69)
python10
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java10
scala10
open-data10
pandas9
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statistics9
big-data9
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dsakuma/dotfiles
Oct 2017 - Mar 2025
Contributions:272 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 6 months
dsakuma/setup-python-project
May 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:40 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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