Felipe Moraes
Senior Machine Learning Scientist I at Booking.com
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolFelipe Moraes is a Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Booking.com with 11 years of experience blending causal inference, experimentation, and production ML to drive conversion and revenue. He has designed, deployed, and operationalized 25+ causal models including uplift models, and routinely translates cross-functional business problems into high-impact ML solutions. Felipe’s PhD from Delft University of Technology underpins a strong research-to-product track record—seven publications and multiple conference talks—while mentoring PhD interns to publish and present externally. His background spans applied industry roles (Amazon, Booking.com) and interdisciplinary research in information retrieval, collaborative search, and user studies, giving him a rare mix of rigorous experimental design and production engineering. Notably, he has hands-on experience with both statistical causal methods (differences-in-differences, randomized designs) and modern ML tooling (PyTorch, Docker, Elasticsearch) enabling reliable deployment at scale. Based in Amsterdam, he combines academic depth with pragmatic product focus to deliver measurable business outcomes from causal ML.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Delft University of TechnologyMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Portuguese, English, Spanish, Dutch
Github Skills (49)
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
data-science9
pytorch9
information-retrieval9
tensorflow9
neural-network9
lambda9
backend9
react8
scalable8
deep-neural-networks8
ml8
javascript8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
searchx-framework/searchx-backend
Nov 2017 - Jun 2021
This is the backend layer of SearchX. SearchX is a scalable collaborative search system being developed by Lambda Lab of TU Delft.
Contributions:3 reviews, 76 commits, 9 PRs in 3 years 7 months
scalabledelfttu-delftsearch-enginebackend
felipemoraes/pyNeuIR
Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:38 commits in 1 month
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