Gustavo Mendonca
Founder at Stealth Startup
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolGustavo Mendonca is a computational linguist and serial founder with 11+ years building large-scale NLP and speech systems, most recently founding startups in AI-driven data and art digitization. At Google since 2013 he shipped internationalization and language infrastructure—leading the Brazilian Portuguese launch of Assistant and contributing to parsing, morphology, TTS, dialog and semantic ontology projects. He blends linguistic rigor (BA in Linguistics) with machine learning and engineering chops (MSc in CS, Python, TensorFlow/Keras), and has a knack for turning messy language data into production-ready pipelines. Gustavo’s ventures span speech corpora and text normalization to marketplace and dataset platforms, showing a pattern of productizing language research. Now based in Zurich and trained in entrepreneurial leadership at ETH, he pairs deep technical expertise with founder-side experience raising pre-seed funding and working with European auction houses. An understated strength: he treats databases as first-class language tools—"give me a database and I will SQL what you need."
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science and Computer Mathematics, Master of Science Computer Science and Computer Mathematics at USP - Universidade de São PauloCAS Entrepreneurial Leadership in Technological Ventures, CAS Entrepreneurial Leadership in Technological Ventures at ETH ZürichBachelor of Arts Letters / Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts Letters / Linguistics at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
English, Portuguese, German
Github Skills (2)
nlp3
python3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
gustavoauma/propor_2016_speller
Mar 2016 - Oct 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 7 months
gustavoauma/aeiouado_g2p
Nov 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:12 commits in 1 month
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