Filipa Peleja
Lead Data Science Engineer
Billund, Region of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolFilipa Peleja is a Lead Data Science Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operationalizing AI and ML solutions across retail, e-commerce and enterprise environments. She currently leads data science at the LEGO Group and has steered AI strategy and cross-regional ML initiatives at Levi Strauss, demonstrating strength in aligning technical teams with business value. An experienced educator and mentor, she concurrently leads data science instruction at CodeOp and has taught postgraduate and university courses in NLP, text analytics and classic ML. Her background spans hands-on data engineering, visualization and MLOps coordination, plus prior roles in industry research and telecoms that sharpen her applied research instincts. She holds a PhD in Computer Science and an MBA, a combination that helps her bridge deep technical rigor with strategic product thinking. An often overlooked asset: she consistently invests in talent development and learning programs, amplifying impact beyond individual projects.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Informatic Engineering, Bachelor, Informatic Engineering at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa - FCT NOVAMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at London School of Business and Finance LSBF
English
Github Skills (1)
cda7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vfp1/bts-cda-2020
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Repo for the CDA class at BTS
Contributions:8 commits, 17 pushes in 14 days
btscda
Peleja/Data-Democratisation
Sep 2022 - Sep 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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