Felipe Penha
Senior AI Engineer at Cargill
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolFelipe Penha is a Senior AI Engineer at Cargill with a Physics Ph.D. and over a decade of hands-on experience applying AI/ML to complex business domains like supply chain, manufacturing, CPG, retail, workplace safety and food quality. He has led end-to-end AI product efforts—gathering requirements for multiple products, deploying GenAI solutions for legal domains (fraud, contracts, IP, M&A), and building feature-store/data-engineering pipelines for on-premise sensors to cloud services. Recognized internally as a Cargill Analytics Advocate and an active OWASP contributor to GenAI security and red teaming, he blends product management, security-first engineering, and operational model governance. Comfortable converting research rigor into production impact, Felipe also brings a public-facing presence—tens of thousands of views across talks and livestreams—and a track record of hiring and mentoring data science teams.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Physics, Master's degree Physics at USP - Universidade de São PauloHigh School, High School at Colégio WRCurso OlimpoDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) - partially Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - partially Physics at University of DelawareDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics at Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (28)
valence10
vader10
reasoner9
sentiment-classification9
insurance9
dictionary9
lexicon9
rule8
social-media8
sentiment8
nltk7
sentiment-analysis7
rule-based7
nlp6
natural-language-processing6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
fcpenha/Gompertz-Makehan-Fit
Dec 2016 - Aug 2022
Actuarial Sciences project (life insurance related)
Contributions:35 commits, 2 PRs, 34 pushes in 5 years 8 months
pythoninsurancelife-insurancescienceslife
fcpenha/My_Udacity_projects
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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