Fabrício Firmino
Lead Data Scientist
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Top SchoolFabrício Firmino is a Lead Data Scientist and Head of Data based in Rio de Janeiro with 11 years of professional experience and over 15 years applying statistical and machine learning techniques across marketing and energy domains. He leads a 15-person team at Winnin building the data ingestion, cleaning pipelines and the AI powering Winnin-Insights, a video analytics platform. With a PhD focused on social media classification using deep learning and distributional semantics, he blends academic rigor with product-facing ML systems. His background spans applied signal processing, image-based price aggregation, recommender systems and real-time collaborative educational games, reflecting a knack for turning unstructured data into actionable intelligence. He also teaches Python, Data Mining and Big Data at UFRJ, bridging research, education and industry practice. An understated strength is his long history of interdisciplinary projects—from smart-meter appliance detection to malware prediction—that reveal a practical, systems-oriented approach to complex data problems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doutorado em Informática, Aprendizado de Máquina / Semântica Distribucional, Doutorado em Informática, Aprendizado de Máquina / Semântica Distribucional at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Portuguese, EnglishProgramming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
firmino/PyWANN
Apr 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:93 commits, 77 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 1 month
Contributions:82 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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