João Granja
Senior AI Engineer at SHERPANY
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolJoão Granja is a Senior AI Engineer based in Lisbon with over a decade of experience building production-grade software and AI solutions, specializing in Generative AI, LLM-driven APIs and Speech-to-Text systems for customer service. He combines hands-on systems work in C/C++ and Python with deep learning expertise (PyTorch) and has experience deploying models in on-premise environments and full SDLC ownership. His freelance research includes federated learning for image classification and ML models for embryo viability prediction, and he has maintained an open-source ML repository that supports reproducible experimentation. At Visor.ai and SHERPANY he translated R&D into deployed audio and language features, while earlier roles in avionics and embedded systems honed his reliability-first engineering approach. Comfortable moving between research, prototyping and production, João brings a pragmatic focus on measurable customer impact from AI initiatives.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Mestrado em Engenharia Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores, Mestrado em Engenharia Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do PortoEngenharia de Telecomunicações, Engenharia de Telecomunicações at Wrocław University of Science and TechnologySelf-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree, Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree at Udacity
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
fairness-ml9
lime8
data-science7
machine-learning7
python6
collaboration6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
JoaoGranja/AnalyzeMovieReviews
Apr 2018 - Dec 2021
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
JoaoGranja/JoaoGranja
Mar 2021 - Jun 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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