Diogo Vieira is a Sr. Staff Scientist and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience building production ML systems and scaling data teams across Latin America. He holds a PhD from PUC-Rio and an MS in AI from UFRJ, and has combined deep research training with product-focused engineering at companies like Globo, OLX, PicPay and now Stone, where he works on GenAI and foundation-model solutions. As co-founder of Data Bootcamp and earlier startups (including an accelerator stint at Google Campus London), he blends teaching, curriculum design and hands-on system design to grow talent and deliver impact. At PicPay he shaped data org structure and a hypothesis-driven culture while indirectly managing dozens of data professionals across multidisciplinary squads. His technical breadth spans big data pipelines, NLP, image classification, and fraud systems, and he’s an active open-source advocate with a longstanding GitHub presence. Based in Rio de Janeiro, he’s known for turning academic insights into scalable, revenue-driving ML products and for mentoring the next generation of practitioners.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Colégio Pedro II
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Contributions:13 PRs, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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Diogo Vieira - Sr Staff Scientist at Data Bootcamp