Igor Quintanilha
Principal Software Engineer at Octos
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIgor Quintanilha is a Principal Software Engineer based in London with a decade of experience building production-ready systems and leading engineering teams across fintech and payments. He combines hands-on engineering at Teya with entrepreneurial experience as co-founder and former CTO of Octos, plus ongoing mentorship there, reflecting a blend of product-minded leadership and startup grit. His background includes research roles at Microsoft ATL and advanced studies (M.Sc. and PhD candidate) in electrical engineering, where he worked on deep learning for multimedia and OOD detection—skills he brings to applied ML and systems design. Igor has steered teams through growth-stage challenges at SaltPay and delivered technical direction while staying deeply involved in implementation. Colleagues would point to his rare mix of academic rigor and pragmatic delivery, and his continued academic work signals a persistent curiosity that informs practical, data-driven engineering decisions.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, M.Sc. Electrical Engineering at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (185)
python10
datasets10
gcp10
real-time-data10
masking10
deep-learning10
gpu10
ml10
torchvision10
neural-network10
computer-vision10
debugging10
artificial-intelligence10
data-science10
cntk10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
igormq/ctc_tensorflow_example
Jul 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:17 commits, 4 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 8 months
ctctensorflowasr
igormq/speech2text
Jun 2018 - Feb 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 2 years 8 months
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