Luiz Vieira
Staff Software Engineer - Safety Appeals at Uber
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolLuiz Vieira is a Staff Software Engineer based in São Paulo with 11 years of experience building safety-critical systems at scale, currently leading design and architecture for Uber’s Safety Appeals platform. He combines a PhD in Computer Science with hands-on engineering to build real-time decisioning, sensor-signal processing, and identity services that help millions of riders and drivers while enabling fast, reliable reinstatement workflows. His work spans cross-organizational integrations, performance and availability engineering, and the development of statistical models that extract patterns from vast telematics and motion data. Luiz has a background in transportation control systems and game development, and he has taught university courses in AI, game programming and HCI—skills that inform his product-minded approach to UX and complex system design. He mentors peers, drives automation and resiliency improvements, and balances deep research experience with pragmatic production delivery. Notably, his career blends academic rigor and applied safety engineering, making him adept at turning sensor research into operationally robust services.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Technologist, Data Processing, Technologist, Data Processing at Faculdade de Tecnologia de São Paulo - FATEC-SPDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Instituto de Matemática e Estatística - Universidade de São Paulo (IME-USP)Master's degree, Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Engineering at IPT - Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (40)
visual-editor10
hidden9
markov9
logistic-regression8
computer-vision8
parallax8
scrollview8
api6
excel6
android6
vector-graphics6
vba6
statistical-inference6
haxeflixel6
ios6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hansonrobotics/face-analysis-sdk
Mar 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:10 commits in 6 months
expression-transferfacial-landmark-detectionlinux-windowswindowslandmark-detection
luigivieira/Facial-Landmarks-Annotation-Tool
Mar 2016 - Oct 2017
A visual editor for manually annotating facial landmarks in images of human faces.
Contributions:18 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
visual-editorcomputer-visionfaciallandmarksfaces
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