Lucas Rolim
Head Of AI & Engineering at iFood
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Top SchoolLucas Rolim is a Head of AI & Engineering and founder with 11 years of experience turning research-grade models into production systems that drive revenue and operational improvements across travel, healthcare, and retail supply chains. He has scaled teams from early-stage to 30+ engineers, built data platforms and MLOps pipelines that serve millions of records daily, and shipped revenue-generating ML features such as dynamic pricing, image optimization, and high-impact chatbots. As co-founder and CTO of Mercado Único he combined product, engineering and go-to-market strategy to build AI agents on WhatsApp and automated overstock classification, backed by Techstars, STRIVE and Rockstart. Earlier research work at UFRJ and CERN informed his rigorous approach to model validation and data quality, and his Stanford/Berkeley executive training complements deep technical degrees in network science and engineering. Based in Rio de Janeiro, he now leads AI efforts at iFood, focusing on practical, scalable ML that improves livelihoods for Brazilian entrepreneurs—often by turning small data nuances into systemic efficiency gains.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford Ignite Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Stanford Ignite Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessMaster's degree Complex Systems | Network Science, Master's degree Complex Systems | Network Science at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Portuguese, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (138)
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database10
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lucaslrolim/Auxili.AR
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 12 pushes, 8 branches in 25 days
lucaslrolim/EEL882-ComputerGraphics
Aug 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:36 commits, 2 pushes in 3 months
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