Summary
João De Andrade is a Machine Learning Engineer and Member of Technical Staff with a decade of experience building production ML and conversational AI systems at top-tier tech companies across Europe and the US. He has led quality and multi-agent Gemini deployments for Automotive AI at Google, driven Cloud Applied AI conversational features, and worked on large-scale recommendation challenges in YouTube Discovery, bringing academic rigor from a PhD in statistical physics to real-world product problems. He has a strong background in fraud detection and security-driven ML from Booking.com and in applied NLP and graphical models from Experian, combining distributed systems, Monte Carlo simulation experience, and pragmatic engineering. Based in Zurich, João blends deep research instincts with a hacker spirit and a track record of taking initiatives from zero to production, including leading cross-functional teams to solve hard hybrid on-device/server AI problems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doutorado em Física Statistical Mechanics, Doutorado em Física Statistical Mechanics at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
Portuguese, English, German