David Pinto
Staff Data Scientist
Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Top SchoolDavid Pinto is a Staff Data Scientist with 11 years of experience building production ML solutions across marketplaces and startups, currently driving data strategy at QuintoAndar. He combines an MSc in Computational Intelligence with practical Machine Learning Engineering training to deliver robust recommendation, search and NLP systems that improve conversion and retention. His background spans the full data lifecycle—from engineering and BI to experimentation and causal A/B testing—allowing him to translate ambiguous business problems into measurable impact. As a founding member at Melvi and co-founder of Nexer Labs, he brings entrepreneurial rigor and hands-on product sensibility to data science initiatives. An active open-source practitioner and Kaggle participant, he blends classical statistical methods with modern deep learning and generative AI, often hacking on LLMs outside business hours. Based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, he’s known for turning sophisticated IR and recommender techniques into pragmatic, production-ready features.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Nanodegree Machine Learning Engineer, Nanodegree Machine Learning Engineer at UdacityMaster's degree Computational Intelligence, Master's degree Computational Intelligence at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (13)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
davpinto/master-thesis
Oct 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:38 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
davpinto/elmnet
Nov 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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