Leandro Lima
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Happy Kids Academy S.I.S. | Happykids.ai
United States
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Top SchoolLeandro Lima is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience building production ML systems across bioinformatics, recommender systems, harmful content detection, and LLMs. He has shipped models and data pipelines at scale at Meta to improve video recommendations and reduce harmful content for millions of users, and now focuses on personalization and AI agents for Cash App, Afterpay, and Block’s Goose. With a PhD in Bioinformatics and early career work on genomic structural variants, he brings rigorous experimental design and feature engineering practices from scientific research into product ML. He’s also taught over 500 students and advises startups on safe, child-facing chatbots, reflecting a strong commitment to responsible AI and knowledge transfer. An engineer comfortable from SQL and Python data pipelines to deployment and monitoring, he combines domain depth in genomics with practical experience in large-scale recommendation and integrity systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Federal University of CearaDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
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Github Skills (23)
biology9
bioinformatics9
computational-biology9
systems-biology9
genome8
sequencing8
vcf-files8
open-science8
next-generation-sequencing8
simulator7
genetics7
meta-analysis7
gwas7
pip6
macos6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dailydrip/machine_learning_in_production
Aug 2018 - Aug 2024
Contributions:2 pushes in 6 years
WGLab/SVGen
Oct 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:1 release, 90 commits, 17 pushes in 1 year
next-generationstructural-variantssequencing-datanext-generation-sequencingsequencing
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