Leo Casarsa
Managing Director Data Scientist
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolLeo Casarsa is a data science leader and managing director with 11 years of experience building and scaling AI across strategy, engineering and R&D, now leading data science at CHECK24 in Berlin. He has driven large MLOps and commercialization programs at QuantumBlack/McKinsey—reducing time-to-value for a global grocer by 50% and accelerating a biopharma launch by 25%—while consistently ranking in the top decile of peers. His background blends rigorous academic work in neural information processing and causal neuroimaging with hands-on product prototyping, including founding a stealth startup that built a predictive engine for AI virtual companions. Comfortable translating between engineers, scientists and business stakeholders, he has led 30+ practitioners and created internal MLOps and GenAI curricula used by thousands. He brings a pragmatic focus on operationalizing models and standards that scale across industries, informed by deep domain experience in life sciences, retail, pricing and optimization.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting Graduate Student Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Visiting Graduate Student Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS Neural Information Processing, Master of Science - MS Neural Information Processing at University of TübingenBachelor of Science - BS Molecular Sciences (Applied Math), Bachelor of Science - BS Molecular Sciences (Applied Math) at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
Portuguese, English, German, Spanish, Italian, French
Github Skills (31)
generative10
serve10
probabilistic-programming9
database-table9
bayesian-inference9
modeling9
backend9
data-analysis8
querying8
machine-learning8
inference7
bayesian6
composable6
database4
sql3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
leocasarsa/home
Nov 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
leocasarsa/Lab-Notebook
Oct 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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