Igor Fernandes
Applied Scientist at Heritable Agriculture
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolIgor Fernandes is an applied scientist blending a strong statistical foundation (M.S. in Statistics) with 7+ years building and shipping ML/AI solutions across agriculture, e-commerce, and environmental analytics. He designs end-to-end workflows—from feature engineering and rigorous statistical modeling to Dockerized deployment and Azure-based MLOps—bringing production reliability to research-grade models. Recent work includes RAG-based GenAI systems and time-series risk forecasting that delivered measurable operational savings and improved decision-making. A competitive data scientist, he has won international agritech challenges and open-sourced reproducible competition solutions on GitHub, demonstrating both academic rigor and pragmatic engineering. He’s comfortable translating complex models into business value for non-technical stakeholders and mentoring junior teammates on ML engineering best practices. Notably, his research-grade pipelines have scaled from HPC clusters for multi-omics to cloud-native deployments, showing versatility across infrastructure and scientific domains.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Statistics, Bachelor's degree, Statistics at Universidade Federal de GoiásMaster's degree, Statistics and Analytics, Master's degree, Statistics and Analytics at University of Arkansas
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Github Skills (200)
parallel10
python10
django-framework10
regression10
deep-learning10
clustering10
django10
neural-network10
classification10
data-science10
tensorflow10
machine-learning10
orm10
r9
pandas9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
igorkf/meli-data-challenge-2021
Sep 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:10 commits, 7 pushes in 10 months
igorkf/trink
Jul 2021 - Mar 2025
A URL shortener made with Django Rest Framework
Contributions:15 PRs, 18 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 9 months
shortenerpythondjango-rest-frameworkdjangoshorten-urls
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