João Alvarenga
Head Of AI AI Chat
Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Top SchoolJoão Alvarenga is an AI leader and hands-on software engineer with nine years building production-grade machine learning and conversational AI at enterprise scale. As Head of AI Chat at Blip he drives strategy and delivery of LLM-based, multimodal and speech recognition platforms that power high-volume customer interactions. He has a track record of turning research-grade models into maintainable products—leading speech-to-text, OCR, and campaign-specific systems such as a Coca-Cola audio/OCR holiday activation. Comfortable across cloud-native stacks (Kubernetes, streaming pipelines) and end-to-end ML lifecycle, João blends technical architecture with people leadership to scale teams and solutions. He also co-founded an early startup and maintains a builder’s mindset—interested in emulation and simulation alongside ML—which fuels his experimentation-first approach. Based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, he pairs an MS in Artificial Intelligence with deep NLP and production deployment experience that consistently drives measurable business outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Técnico em Automação Industrial Controle de Processos Programação Controle de Processos Eletrônica Analógica e Digital Sensores Digitais e Analógicos., Técnico em Automação Industrial Controle de Processos Programação Controle de Processos Eletrônica Analógica e Digital Sensores Digitais e Analógicos. at Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de MinasMaster of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence at UFOP - Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
Portuguese, English, French
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Github Skills (54)
pytorch10
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
transformer10
speech-recognition10
nlp10
transformers9
language-model9
bert9
jax9
flax8
seq2seq8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
joaoalvarenga/voice-assistant
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:13 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
joaoalvarenga/joaoalvarenga
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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