Summary
Ícaro Medeiros is a Staff Data Scientist with 14 years of experience building production-scale AI and big data systems across telecom, media, consumer electronics and insurance. He blends research-grade NLP and knowledge‑based approaches with pragmatic ML engineering—leading teams that shipped health-monitoring features at Samsung and scalable NLP insights and ML platforms at Zurich and Telefônica. Comfortable from PySpark and Databricks to Java-based big data stacks, he also teaches and mentors, having served as an assistant professor on a Big Data MBA. His career mixes R&D, product ownership and platform thinking, making him adept at turning experimental models into robust, developer-friendly data products. An ongoing PhD candidate and long-time practitioner, he pairs deep academic roots in AI with hands-on delivery across Latin America and global R&D hubs.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Artificial Intelligence - Computer Science, Master's degree Artificial Intelligence - Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Bachelor's degree Computer Science Information Retrieval, Bachelor's degree Computer Science Information Retrieval at Universidade Federal de Alagoas
Spanish, Portuguese, English