Leonardo Neri
Senior Data Science Manager
Pernambuco, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolLeonardo Neri is a Senior Data Science Manager with a decade of experience building production ML systems and leading multidisciplinary teams across fintech and industrial sectors. He combines a PhD in speech processing with hands-on expertise in LLMs, RAG, agents and classical ML pipelines to deliver fraud prevention, fake-account detection and domain-specific AI applications for Oil & Gas and banking. At Stone he architected end-to-end monitoring and drift-detection workflows that balanced fraud coverage with reduced false blocks for legitimate customers. At CESAR he leads teams integrating LLM agents with APIs, documents and databases to create specialized business apps, showing a rare blend of research rigour and product-focused delivery. He has deep applied experience in computer vision, speech processing and MLOps dating back to real-time video and mobile systems, which helps him bridge low-level engineering constraints and strategic KPIs. Based in Pernambuco, Brazil, he’s equally comfortable mentoring teams, defining measurement frameworks, and shipping models that operate reliably in high-stakes production environments.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Sciences at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (14)
crud5
web-application5
jpa4
java4
spring-boot4
spring4
hibernate3
database3
mysql3
jsf3
postgresql2
seq2seq1
chatbot1
facebook1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
leonardovaleriano/CRUD-java-jsf-spring-jpa-hibernate-postgreSQL
Jan 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:22 commits, 6 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 1 month
spring-bootspring-frameworkhibernatemysqlintegrated
leonardovaleriano/Speaker-Diarization-Researches
Jul 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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