Summary
Hugo Matalonga is a data scientist with 11 years of engineering experience, currently focused on search and marketplace relevance at OLX after senior data science roles at Farfetch and Mobileum. He specializes in fraud detection, ML infrastructure and MLOps, having increased fraud detection by up to 50% through predictive models and production-ready pipelines. Hugo bridges applied research and industry鈥攈is academic work on privacy-preserving and transfer learning for tree-based models addresses cold-start challenges in fraud systems. He co-founded GreenHub, producing published insights on Android energy consumption and earning a special mention at MSR'19, demonstrating a knack for measurable, research-driven products. Comfortable mentoring teams and introducing new tooling, he blends hands-on Python, Spark and SQL expertise with a product-minded approach to model monitoring and drift detection. Based in Braga, Portugal, he balances technical rigor with curiosity and a longstanding interest in efficient, privacy-aware ML solutions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
IT Technician, Information Technology, IT Technician, Information Technology at Escola Tecnol贸gica e Profissional de Sic贸
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Universidade do Minho
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science at Universidade da Beira Interior
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science at AGH University of Krakow
Portuguese, English, Polish