Summary
Diego Souza is a PhD student and seasoned software and AI engineer with a decade of experience building research-driven, production-ready systems across startups and industry. He founded an AI startup that commercialized an indoor positioning system and has delivered distributed, edge and hardware-accelerated solutions using Kubernetes, Docker, Django, .NET and heterogeneous architectures. Comfortable spanning from neural model development and real‑time video processing to cloud orchestration and business pitching, he blends hands-on coding with product and team leadership. Based in Birmingham, he holds a Master’s in Artificial Intelligence and a Computer Science degree and is motivated by solving complex problems while innovating responsibly. A less obvious strength is his track record turning academic prototypes into viable MVPs and commercial products, bridging lab research and market needs.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computing and System's Engineering - Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computing and System's Engineering - Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro