Gonçalo Ribeiro
Senior Director (Technical) Distinguished Engineer at KPMG US
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGonçalo Ribeiro is a seasoned technology leader and founder based in San Francisco, currently serving as Senior Director (Technical) and Distinguished Engineer at KPMG US while co-leading the Synthetic Data Center of Excellence following KPMG’s acquisition of his company. As Co‑Founder and CEO of YData since 2019, he built a data‑centric platform that improves AI training datasets through automated profiling and state‑of‑the‑art synthetic data generation, and he has hands‑on open‑source experience maintaining the popular ydata‑profiling project. He blends product strategy, engineering leadership, and startup scaling expertise, gained from prior senior engineering and consulting roles across Europe and Brazil. An active mentor, angel investor and advisor, Gonçalo supports startups and responsible AI initiatives through Techstars, Plug and Play, AI2030 and the Center for Responsible AI. Notably, he pairs technical depth (deep learning nanodegree and software engineering masters) with operator experience—shaping both the codebase and the go‑to‑market of data quality tooling.
5 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Management with Specialisation in Program and Project Management, Master’s Degree Management with Specialisation in Program and Project Management at INDEG-ISCTE Executive EducationNanodegree Deep Learning, Nanodegree Deep Learning at UdacityGeneral Management Program Management, General Management Program Management at Católica Lisbon School of Business and EconomicsBachelor's and Master's Degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's and Master's Degree Computer Software Engineering at Universidade de AveiroERASMUS: Master's Degree Computer Software Engineering, ERASMUS: Master's Degree Computer Software Engineering at TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (12)
pandas10
exploratory-data-analysis10
python10
data-science10
data-profiling10
data-analysis10
exploratory9
pytest9
testing9
explore9
exp9
jupyter7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ydataai/ydata-profiling
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
1 Line of code data quality profiling & exploratory data analysis for Pandas and Spark DataFrames.
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:36 releases, 42 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
Contributions summary:Gonçalo primarily contributed to updating and maintaining the changelogs of the `ydata-profiling` repository, reflecting code improvements and new features. They also focused on code formatting, ensuring consistency and readability throughout the codebase. Additionally, the user's work involved the implementation of tests related to core functionalities such as correlations and timeseries.
pythonjupyter-notebookpandas-profilingbig-data-analyticsstatistics
ydataai/aws-adapter
Sep 2022 - Jul 2024
AWS Adapter
Contributions:206 releases, 180 tags in 1 year 9 months
aws-lambdaprovideraws
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