Débora Engelmann
Senior Software Engineer, Backend AI at VTEX
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Top SchoolDébora Engelmann is a Senior Software Engineer and Backend AI specialist with a Ph.D. in Computer Science and over a decade of experience building production-grade AI systems and data pipelines. Currently on VTEX’s Agent Experience Platform, she helps architect conversational AI foundations for digital commerce after leading applied multi-agent and generative-AI research at NoHarm.ai. She founded Whispers-ai to solve hospital bed allocation with a SaaS product later folded into clinical deployments, demonstrating a rare blend of product leadership, applied research, and real-world healthcare impact. An academic at heart, Débora taught databases and AI while publishing peer-reviewed work, which informs her pragmatic approach to production engineering and interdisciplinary collaboration with clinicians. Based in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, she pairs deep technical rigor from doctoral research with hands-on experience across ETL, prompt engineering, and system design, often turning complex research ideas into deployable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at PUCRS - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do SulPhD, Computer Science and System Engineering, PhD, Computer Science and System Engineering at Università degli Studi di GenovaBachelor of Business Administration, Foreign trade, Final grade average 9,2, Bachelor of Business Administration, Foreign trade, Final grade average 9,2 at Instituição Evangélica de Novo Hamburgo - IENHUndergraduate technology course in Internet Systems, Information Technology, Undergraduate technology course in Internet Systems, Information Technology at FACCAT - Faculdades Integradas de Taquara
English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DeboraEngelmann/Hospital-Bed-Allocation-Ontology
May 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
DeboraEngelmann/ontology_access_example
Feb 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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