Luiz Alves
Director, Solutions Engineering Principal Architect at Egen
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolLuiz Alves is a director-level solutions engineer and principal architect who designs and delivers cloud-native AI/ML and NLP platforms for enterprise clients, currently leading solutions at Egen in Chicago. With a PhD in Physics and 10+ years bridging complex-systems research and production ML, he has published 24 peer-reviewed papers and accumulated 1,400+ citations, bringing a research-grade rigor to applied ML engineering. He has deep experience with LLMs, document intelligence, MLOps, and GCP/Vertex AI, and has moved models from prototyping to production across finance, legal, and public-sector domains. Known for practical model optimization (LoRA, quantization) and scalable pipelines, he combines hands-on engineering with strategic client partnership to translate business goals into reliable AI systems. An unusual strength is his science-driven perspective on socio-technical problems, informed by years modeling urban and networked systems, which helps him surface non-obvious failure modes and data biases before deployment.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics at Universidade Estadual de Maringá
Portuguese, English, Spanish
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Github contributions (5)
lgaalves/CelegansMotility
Jul 2017 - Apr 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
lgaalves/AppliedMathSchoolLectures
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:54 commits, 31 pushes in 13 days
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