Luiz Felix
Technical Lead at Nubank
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolLuiz Felix is a Technical Lead and seasoned machine learning engineer based in São Paulo with 11 years of experience building production ML systems and data platforms, currently leading teams at Nubank. He combines academic rigor (Master’s in Machine Learning with published research in NLP and deep learning) with hands-on software craftsmanship across Python, Scala, Clojure and Spark to deliver cost-saving ETL improvements and model deployments. At Nubank he has driven cross-country data teams, cut operational costs substantially (e.g., large ingestion budget reductions and an ETL overhaul estimated at $150k/year), and introduced monitoring and hiring practices that improved quality and inclusivity. Known for shipping microservices and active-learning NLP pipelines in industry projects like Petrobras, he pairs people leadership with technical mentorship, helping engineers pivot into data science roles. He brings a rare mix of research experience, production engineering, and multilingual team leadership across Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Machine Learning, Master's degree Machine Learning at Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita FilhoUniversity Study Abroad Year Computer Science, University Study Abroad Year Computer Science at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)Colégio Técnico Industrial - "Prof. Isaac Portal Roldán"
German, Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (110)
python10
optimizers10
fasttext10
glove10
word2vec10
corpus10
statistics10
topic-modeling10
gensim10
latent-dirichlet-allocation10
theano10
word-embeddings10
optimizer9
queue9
nlp9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
lzfelix/evolving-ncrf
May 2019 - Jan 2020
📜 Official implementation of the paper "Evolving Neural Conditional Random Fields for drilling report classification"
Contributions:16 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 9 months
nlppytorchclassificationdrillingevolutionary-algorithms
lzfelix/keras_attention
Aug 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:28 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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