Lucas Estevam
Senior Director Of Data Science
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolLucas Estevam is a Senior Director of Data Science at Nubank with 11 years of experience building data-driven products and leading cross-functional teams of data scientists, ML engineers and analysts. He has progressed through technical and managerial roles at Nubank—from senior data scientist to director and general manager for a low-income credit card product—demonstrating a rare blend of hands-on modeling, product ownership and business leadership in fintech. His early career in quantitative trading and electronic trading platform development (Java, C#, Streambase) gives him deep experience in low-latency systems, large-scale data engineering and risk-focused analytics. Trained at Columbia Engineering (MS in Operations Research) and USP in Computer Engineering, he combines rigorous OR methods with production ML practices to drive profitable credit decisions. Based in São Paulo, he is known for translating complex trading and credit problems into robust, scalable systems that handle high transaction volumes.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at USP - Universidade de São PauloMS in Operations Research, MS in Operations Research at Columbia Engineering
Portuguese, English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (24)
dataflow9
portable9
xgboost9
java9
gradient9
python9
machine-learning9
distributed-systems9
boosting9
scalable9
dask8
scala8
gradient-boosting8
spark8
gbm8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
LucasEstevam/textSentimentViz
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
LucasEstevam/CNNSummarizer
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:1 commit, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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