Summary
Fabiano Tavares is an AI and data science leader with over 15 years of experience combining advanced machine learning research and pragmatic software engineering across public sector, research, and fintech. Currently heading AI strategy at MB | Mercado Bitcoin, he designs and scales GenAI, LLM/RAG, and MLOps solutions that drive efficiency and competitive advantage in financial services. His background spans hands-on model development (transformers, CNNs, GANs), production deployment (Kubeflow, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP), and data engineering for robust ETL, warehouses and retrieval systems. He has strong technical leadership and teaching experience—coordinating a data science specialization and mentoring teams while translating research into deployed products. Notably, his early work applied evolutionary feature-selection and NLP to large-scale public-sector initiatives, reflecting a long-standing focus on turning complex unstructured data into actionable insights. Based in São Paulo, he blends academic rigor (MSc in Computer Science, AI/NLP) with a track record of delivering ML systems in production.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science | Artificial intelligence | NLP, Inteligência Artificial e Recuperação de Informação, Master's degree, Computer Science | Artificial intelligence | NLP, Inteligência Artificial e Recuperação de Informação at Ceara state University
Portuguese, English, Spanish