Summary
Felipe Almeida is a Lead Machine Learning Engineer based in São Paulo with 11 years of experience building end-to-end data products that bridge research and production. He combines deep theoretical curiosity with pragmatic engineering, drawing on a full-stack background in PHP and Scala, plus production ML and data engineering using Python, Spark, and AWS. At Nubank he leads ML systems work, having previously designed streaming and batch pipelines and consulted on data science projects. Comfortable across backend APIs, distributed systems and model deployment, he excels at turning experimental ideas into reliable, scalable services. Outside work he documents his thinking and code—maintaining a technical site, GitHub and SlideShare—signalizing a habit of clear communication and reproducible engineering.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Wimbledon College
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
High School, High School at Colégio Militar do Rio de Janeiro
Portuguese, English, German, Russian