Zé Lacerda
Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Summary
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SeniorJosé Lacerda is a Staff Data Scientist with over a decade of hands-on experience building AI and data-driven products, currently leading generative AI work for conversational bots at Stone. He blends strategic consulting and team leadership—running his own consultancy NousFit while previously managing AI and data science teams at Fundação CERTI—to translate business problems into production-ready ML solutions such as credit risk models. His background spans journalism and analytics, which gives him a rare strength in crafting clear data narratives and benchmarking technology trends. Comfortable at both startup pace and corporate scale, he’s known for turning R&D into operational platforms and mentoring cross-functional teams.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
teachable-machine9
open-data8
machine-learning6
artificial-intelligence6
data-science5
python3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zelacerda/zelacerda.github.io
Apr 2015 - May 2026
Contributions:94 pushes, 1 branch in 11 years 3 months
zelacerda/chatpoker
Feb 2023 - Jun 2023
Contributions:3 releases, 6 pushes, 3 tags in 3 months
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