Lucas Faria
Senior Data Scientist
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolLucas Faria is a Senior Data Scientist with 7 years of experience building ML and AI solutions at Itaú Unibanco, where he leads projects across NLP (including generative AI), computer vision, and back-office optimization. Trained as a Control & Automation engineer and holding an MBA in AI and Big Data from USP, he blends rigorous engineering discipline with advanced data science practice to turn complex operational problems into scalable predictive systems. Comfortable with the full data stack—Python, TensorFlow, AWS, Docker, and production tooling—he has repeatedly been the sole data scientist on-site, driving end-to-end delivery and technical leadership. Beyond models, he’s passionate about efficiency and automation, often translating domain knowledge into tools that measurably reduce operational costs. In his spare time he plays guitar and pursues continuous learning, a trait that informs his pragmatic yet curious approach to experimentation and deployment.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Control and Automation Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Control and Automation Engineering at Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita FilhoEngineering, Engineering at Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsUniversity of São Paulo
English, Spanish, Portuguese
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
lucasmfaria/image_classifier
Dec 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:106 commits, 55 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
lucasmfaria/movie-sentiment-analysis
Sep 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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