Summary
Jose F is an experienced AI and Big Data engineer with 11+ years delivering production-grade ML and data platforms across cloud providers and enterprise environments. Based in Portugal, he has deep hands-on expertise in LLMs and NLP tooling (LangChain, LlamaIndex, Haystack, Hugging Face) alongside strong Spark/Scala and Python skills for large-scale ETL, data lakes and streaming systems. He combines theoretical rigor—statistics, linear algebra and calculus—with practical projects integrating Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI and observability stacks to turn research into measurable business outcomes. His background spans cybersecurity architecture, data engineering and public service, giving him a rare blend of governance-minded engineering and rapid ML prototyping. He is an active practitioner with certifications from Google, IBM and Coursera and maintains repositories and models on GitHub and Hugging Face that showcase applied LLM work. Notably, he pairs legacy enterprise migrations (Hadoop→cloud) with cutting-edge generative AI projects, making him effective at both modernization and innovation.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Statistics with Python Specialization Mathematics and Statistics, Statistics with Python Specialization Mathematics and Statistics at University of Michigan
Professional Certification in Data Science Data Science, Professional Certification in Data Science Data Science at Harvard University
Data Engineering Nanodegree (Stop), Data Engineering Nanodegree (Stop) at Udacity
AI for Medicine Specialization Medicine, AI for Medicine Specialization Medicine at deeplearning.ai
Portuguese, English, Spanish