José Carlos
Senior Data Scientist
Minas Gerais, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolJosé Carlos is a Senior Data Scientist and AI Engineer from Minas Gerais, Brazil, with a master's in NLP and over five years building end-to-end ML solutions and data platforms. He blends academic rigor—high grades in a Systems and Automation MSc—with hands-on experience in GenAI/LLM integrations, statistical modeling, and evolutionary computation to deliver production-ready models and cost-saving analytics (including a project that cut costs by six figures annually). Comfortable bridging roles as data, analytics, and occasional data engineer, he automates pipelines, maintains legacy models, and leads knowledge-base driven AI platform development. A self-taught, curious communicator, he pairs scientific depth with practical engineering—his background in mechanical design and avionics projects underpins a systems-oriented approach to problem solving. His public posts and publications (jcfneto.github.io and CafeComPequi) reflect an active translation of research into applied solutions.
5 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Systems and Automation Engineering, 9.7, Master, Systems and Automation Engineering, 9.7 at Universidade Federal de LavrasBachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, 7.5, Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, 7.5 at Federal University of Mato Grosso
Portuguese, English, French
Github Skills (6)
large-language-models9
knowledge-graph9
retrieval-augmented-generation9
gpt8
genai8
llm8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jcfneto/portfolio
Nov 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
jcfneto/jcfneto
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:29 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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