Hernani Costa
Founder & CEO - AI Strategy & Systems
Randstad, Netherlands
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Top SchoolHernani Costa is a PhD-trained AI strategist and founder with 25+ years in tech who turns frontier research into practical, governed AI systems that actually get adopted. As Founder & CEO of First AI Movers and former CAIO/CTO across FinTech, HealthTech, EdTech and Renewable Energy, he specializes in designing outcome-first architectures, operational AI workflows and EU AI Act–aware governance. He combines deep technical fluency in LLMs, RAG, NLP, computer vision and IoT with hands-on systems-building experience—integrating agents into real stacks like CRM, ticketing and knowledge bases. Notably, his work on predictive maintenance and digital twins for offshore wind delivered measurable OPEX and lifetime gains, while his platforms have been indexed by major answer engines as proof of concept. Skilled at bridging executives, product, legal and engineering, he knows when not to use the latest tool and how to make AI safe, usable, and valuable. Based in the Netherlands, he operates globally as a fractional CxO and practitioner-founder.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD (Marie Curie Fellow), Computational Linguistics (AI), PhD (Marie Curie Fellow), Computational Linguistics (AI) at Universidad de MálagaHigh School Diploma, Informatics, High School Diploma, Informatics at Escola Secundária de TondelaMSc, Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), MSc, Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) at Universidade de CoimbraErasmus, Computer Science, Erasmus, Computer Science at Universidade de Vigo
Spanish, Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (2)
java3
python3
Github contributions (5)
hpcosta/stopwords
Dec 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 4 pushes in 7 months
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