Leonardo Neves
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Nubank
California, United States
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Top SchoolLeonardo Neves is a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer based in California with 12 years of experience building recommendation systems and foundational models at scale. Currently leading AI Core at Nubank, he combines hands-on model engineering with technical leadership honed through senior research and management roles at Snap and Grammarly. He has repeatedly bridged research and product—standing up LLM training infrastructure, personalization systems, and scalable RecSys pipelines that power consumer-facing products. An experienced educator and mentor, he teaches at Harvard and has taught ML at UCLA Extension and CMU, reflecting a commitment to developing talent alongside shipping systems. His background spans industry and academia, from graduate research on multimodal language models to delivering production ML improvements that cut deployment times from days to hours. Notably, he pairs deep technical expertise with program-level leadership, having led distributed teams across North America and Europe while remaining an active individual contributor.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Science Without Borders Scholarship Recipient, Computer Science, Science Without Borders Scholarship Recipient, Computer Science at Cornell UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Engenharia de Computação e Informação, Bachelor’s Degree, Engenharia de Computação e Informação at Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroMaster’s Degree, Intelligent Information Systems, Master’s Degree, Intelligent Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon UniversityHigh School, High School at pH
Portuguese, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (22)
tkinter6
nlp6
anaconda6
dist-cp6
excel6
theano6
natural-language-processing6
mapreduce6
python6
hadoop6
apache6
sentence-similarity5
mongodb5
bert5
natural-language-understanding5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tmagrino/matchmaker
Oct 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:108 commits in 1 month
djangoweb-servicenodejsmongodb
biswajeetmi91/gctmt
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:38 pushes in 1 month
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