Edgar Valente
Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Nubank
Santa Catarina, Brazil
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Top SchoolEdgar Valente is a Lead Machine Learning Engineer based in Santa Catarina, Brazil, with eight years of industry experience and over six focused on applied ML across Python, Scala and R. He has led end-to-end data science projects from exploration and ETL to production deployment, emphasizing robust system architecture and MLOps automation. At Nubank he progressed from Senior to Lead, driving cross-functional integration between ML and data engineering teams and shaping operational ML practices at scale. His background includes building recommender systems, dbt-backed pipelines, and production ML architectures across fintech and SaaS environments. Trained in materials engineering and an ML Nanodegree from Udacity, he brings a pragmatic engineering mindset and attention to production reliability rooted in early hardware and quality-control experience. Colleagues describe him as a technical lead who balances hands-on algorithm work with infrastructure decisions that make models maintainable in production.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Materials Science and Engineering, Engineer's degree Materials Science and Engineering at Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaMachine Learning Engineer Nanodegree Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree Artificial Intelligence at Udacity
English, Portuguese, French
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Github Skills (20)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
edvalente/r2vortx
Nov 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:6 PRs, 67 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 7 months
r-packagemachinelearning
Aquarela-Advanced-Analytics/r2vortx
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:32 commits, 6 PRs in 18 days
r-packagemachinelearning
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