Felipe Melo
Head Of Data Science And AI Personal And Private Banking
Prague, Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolFelipe Melo is a Head of Data Science and AI with eight years of senior experience building scalable, production-grade ML and Big Data platforms across startups and large banks. He combines deep technical roots in distributed systems, recommender engines, and real-time data pipelines with hands-on product and business ownership—having co-founded two startups and served as CTO. At Absa he has progressed from engineering lead to head of capability, defining AI strategy, MLOps, governance, and architecture that drive measurable business outcomes. He holds a master's in computer science, two patents in audio/pattern recognition and distributed systems, and a track record of open tooling for large-scale Spark ecosystems. Known for thriving between "move fast" startup culture and process-driven corporate environments, he prioritizes pragmatic, scalable solutions over theoretical complexity. Outside work he writes fiction and plays drums, a creative counterpoint that informs his approach to problem solving.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Ouro PretoBachelor's degree, Computing Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computing Engineering at Universidade Presidente Antônio CarlosFoundations for Business Leadership, Foundations for Business Leadership at IMD
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (85)
parser10
spark-structured-streaming10
pyspark10
spark-ml10
avro10
ebcdic10
scalable10
serde10
spark10
kafka10
confluent10
cobol10
mainframe10
copybook10
validation9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
AbsaOSS/ABRiS
Feb 2018 - Aug 2020
Avro SerDe for Apache Spark structured APIs.
Contributions:2 releases, 10 reviews, 241 commits in 2 years 6 months
avroserdeschema-registrystructuredparquet
AbsaOSS/Jdbc2S
Feb 2020 - Jan 2022
A JDBC streaming source for Spark
Contributions:4 releases, 18 commits, 34 PRs in 1 year 11 months
database-accessstreamingsparkscalajava
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