Fabio Kepler
Co-Founder And CTO at Spinnable AI
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolFabio Kepler is a seasoned AI leader and CTO with 15 years of experience building research-driven products and teams, now co-founding Spinnable to commercialize next-generation AI. He spent nearly a decade at Unbabel advancing machine translation and research, rising from associate researcher to Director of AI Research and bridging academic rigor with production deployments. Fabio holds a PhD-focused background in NLP from Universidade de São Paulo with visiting work at UPenn, and he has taught and led technology transfer at Brazilian universities, underscoring his ability to translate research into real-world impact. An active contributor to ML tooling—having tidied and improved a Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School NLP toolkit—he blends hands-on engineering (Python/ML) with strategic product vision. Based in Lisbon, he combines academic depth, startup execution, and a knack for making complex NLP systems maintainable and production-ready.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, Image Processing, Generic Programming, Parallel Programming, BSc, Computer Science, Image Processing, Generic Programming, Parallel Programming at Universidade Federal de Santa MariaPhD, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, PhD, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing at USP - Universidade de São PauloPhD Visiting Scholar, Natural Language Processing, PhD Visiting Scholar, Natural Language Processing at University of Pennsylvania
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (13)
machine-learning10
python10
dependency-parsing9
nlp8
keras6
pandas6
shutil6
pathlib6
amazon-web-services6
amazon-s36
python-unittest6
numpy6
theano6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
LxMLS/lxmls-toolkit
Jun 2016 - Jun 2019
Machine Learning applied to Natural Language Processing Toolkit used in the Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 14 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Fabio primarily contributed to the codebase by fixing naming conventions according to PEP8 guidelines. They made changes in several Python files, including those related to dependency parsing and deep learning models like MLPs and RNNs. Additionally, the user touched upon files related to training classifiers, indicating a focus on improving code style and consistency throughout the project, which is likely a machine learning toolkit.
nlpappliedsummer-schoolfairness-mllanguage-processing
kepler/lxmls-toolkit
May 2016 - Jun 2019
Machine Learning applied to Natural Language Processing Toolkit used in the Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School
Contributions:47 pushes, 22 branches, 1 tag in 3 years 1 month
nlpappliedsummer-schoollanguage-processingmachine-learning
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