Danilo Sato
Global VP Of AI at Thoughtworks
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDanilo Sato is a Global VP of AI with 17 years of experience helping organisations win with Data & AI by delivering value-led transformations and building AI-ready products, platforms and operating models. At Thoughtworks he leads global strategy for AI readiness, engineering, platforms and MLOps/LLMOps, shaping services, assets, accelerators and partnerships while advising executive leaders on governance and strategy. A former member of Thoughtworks' Office of the CTO, he helped create signature approaches such as Data Mesh and CD4ML and authored DevOps in Practice. He pairs hands-on engineering experience—contributing to open-source workshops and demo apps with DevOps, ML deployment and testing improvements—with a strong advisory lens for large-scale change. Named among the UK’s 100 most influential people in data for three consecutive years, he also contributes to industry bodies like techUK and UKFin+ to bridge research, regulation and financial services needs. Trained at USP (MSc) and UCL’s AI for Business programme, he blends academic rigour with practical delivery.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MSc. Computer Science, MSc. Computer Science at USP - Universidade de São PauloExecutive Education Programme Artificial Intelligence for Business, Executive Education Programme Artificial Intelligence for Business at UCL School of Management
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (25)
kubernetes10
docker10
dockers10
cicd10
java10
gcp10
javas10
mlops10
kubernetes-pods10
deployment-automation10
python9
spring-boot9
html8
flask8
machine-learning8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ThoughtWorksInc/cd4ml-workshop
Aug 2018 - Mar 2020
Repository with sample code and instructions for "Continuous Intelligence" and "Continuous Delivery for Machine Learning: CD4ML" workshops
Role in this project:
DevOps & ML Engineer
DevOps & ML EngineerContributions:58 commits, 1 PR, 47 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Danilo's contributions primarily focus on automating and streamlining the deployment and operational aspects of the machine learning application. They updated the deployment scripts to support multi-tenancy, configured container image tagging, and fixed registry URLs. Additionally, the user integrated the application with a logging system (Fluentd) for collecting prediction data. Furthermore, they implemented infrastructure changes and optimizations to expose the application.
cd4mldata-scienceinstructionscontinuousmachine-learning
dtsato/loja-virtual-devops
Dec 2012 - Mar 2014
The New Broadleaf Commerce Demo Site
Role in this project:Back-end & Front-end Developer
Back-end & Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Danilo primarily focused on refactoring and updating the application's code, as evidenced by the commits involving package and module name changes across both the admin and site applications. They also made changes to HTML, JSP, and CSS files, demonstrating front-end work, alongside adjustments to various Java controllers, indicating back-end development. Furthermore, unit tests were added for the AdminLoginController, which suggests a focus on code quality and testing. Finally, the user also added a functional search test using Selenium.
demo-siteecommercecommerce
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