João David
Senior AI Research Scientist at Feedzai
Cartaxo, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolJoão David is a Senior AI Research Scientist with eight years of experience bridging applied machine learning and full-stack engineering. He progressed from software development and research internships into ML roles, now leading research at Feedzai after prior positions as an AI Research Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer. His background includes programmatic 3D reconstruction research at INESC-ID and hands-on delivery of production systems using Node.js, Vue.js, MongoDB and Elasticsearch, giving him rare fluency across research prototypes and scalable deployments. A teaching assistant and current master's candidate at Instituto Superior Técnico, he combines academic rigor with product-focused engineering. Colleagues describe him as someone who turns complex vision problems into practical systems—comfortable moving from floorplan-to-3D program research to fraud-detection ML in production.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Science and Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
Github Skills (56)
transformers10
pytorch10
python10
machine-learning-models10
data-science10
machine-learning10
statistics10
inference10
multimodal10
llm10
audio10
deep-learning10
natural-language-processing10
gemma10
transformer10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
joaocmd/transformers
May 2023 - Apr 2024
🤗 Transformers: State-of-the-art Machine Learning for Pytorch, TensorFlow, and JAX.
Contributions:98 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
joaocmd/Inverse-Algorithmic-Design
May 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:57 commits, 2 pushes in 5 months
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