João Duarte
Machine Learning Engineer at Liftoff Mobile
Barcelona, Catalonia, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJoão Duarte is a Machine Learning Engineer with 10 years of experience bridging academic research and high-impact industry products across ad-tech and session-replay domains. He holds a PhD in Pattern Recognition and has a track record of turning advanced research—online clustering, survival analysis and hierarchical Bayesian models—into production systems that scale to thousands of low-latency predictions per second. At Unity and ironSource/Tapjoy he led projects that automated bidding and offer optimisation, materially increasing revenue adoption and launch velocity for advertisers. João is skilled across the ML stack (Spark, TensorFlow, Scala, Python, Redis, Kafka, cloud platforms) and has designed end-to-end streaming pipelines and efficient inference code to reduce operational cost. Notably, he invented the patented "Customer Struggle" product at SessionCam, demonstrating an ability to translate behavioral signals into actionable product features. Based in Barcelona, he combines deep theoretical grounding with rapid prototyping to deliver pragmatic, measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do PortoPh.D., Pattern Recognition, Ph.D., Pattern Recognition at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (159)
dns10
build-automation10
dockerfile10
elasticsearch10
rest10
amazon-pay10
search-engine10
static-site-generator10
build-system10
makefile10
java10
cicd10
github-pages10
tailwindcss10
responsive10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
JosemyDuarte/serverless_telegram_bot
Dec 2019 - Jan 2021
PoC of a Telegram Bot made with Serverless framework
Contributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 1 month
serverless-frameworktelegram-bot
JosemyDuarte/docker-spark-mongo
Jun 2016 - Aug 2019
Docker image with spark integrated with pyspark-mongo.
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years 2 months
pythondocker-imageintegratedemrmongo
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