João Cunha
Data Science Manager
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJoão Cunha is a Data Science Manager with 8 years of experience building and scaling data and AI teams across fintech and consumer tech, currently leading Data Science at Meta from London. He has repeatedly progressed from hands-on data scientist to senior leader—scaling teams at Freetrade and Plum, launching Plum’s first GenAI consumer product and driving ML systems that turned multi-hour processes into real-time flows and saved six-figure losses. Comfortable across product analytics, data platforms and MLOps, João combines strategic roadmap-setting with delivery-focused execution, having built experimentation and ML platforms and managed teams of 40+ engineers. He brings an economist’s rigor to measurement and causal inference, plus a track record of shipping production models and cost-optimisation in data warehouses. Notably, he has experience leading both data and engineering pillars simultaneously, demonstrating an ability to bridge product, engineering and business outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) in Economics Economics, Master of Science (MSc) in Economics Economics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)Bachelor of Science (BSc) Economics Economics, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Economics Economics at ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics & ManagementPrimary and Secondary School, Primary and Secondary School at Colégio Internacional de Vilamoura
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (28)
r9
forecasting-models9
forecasts9
forecasting9
forecast9
classification8
python8
regression8
poppler7
clustering7
time-series6
anomaly-detection6
nlp5
gpu5
machine-learning5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
joaomicunha/ProphetWrapper
Mar 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:71 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
joaomicunha/companieshr
Jun 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 year 7 months
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