Danilo Motta
Sr. Staff Data & AI (L7)
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolDanilo Motta is a Senior Staff Data Scientist with nine years of experience combining academic rigor from a PhD in Mathematics and Computer Science with production ML at leading Latin American fintechs and e-commerce platforms. He has driven measurable business impact—leading teams that cut fraud >85% YoY, scoped retention strategies projected to save R$1.2B, and delivered recommendation and propensity models that generated multimillion-R$ revenue lifts. His research background in image processing, optimal transport, and visualization informs a strong aptitude for principled modeling, uncertainty estimation, and interpretable analytics. A former visiting researcher at the University of Arizona, he bridges theory and practice, shipping over 20 models via in-house AutoML and operationalizing text mining and optimization for enterprise use. Based in São Paulo, Danilo is equally comfortable mentoring cross-functional teams and rolling up his sleeves to build production-ready systems that prioritize business value and robustness.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doutorado, Mathematics and Computer Science, Doutorado, Mathematics and Computer Science at USP - Universidade de São PauloBacharelado, Ciência da Computação, Bacharelado, Ciência da Computação at Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (4)
multidimensional-scaling5
python1
data-science1
cli1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
danilomotta/LMDS
Aug 2018 - Apr 2021
A multidimensional scaling (MDS) and landmark multidimensional scaling (LMDS) implementation
Contributions:1 review, 9 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 7 months
multidimensional-scaling
danilomotta/minicurso_oo_python
Apr 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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