Marcelo Fernandes
AI Engineeeing, Senior Director at Defined.ai
Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
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Top SchoolMarcelo Fernandes is a senior AI engineering leader with over a decade of experience designing large-scale distributed systems, APIs and enterprise integrations, currently serving as Senior Director of AI Engineering at Defined.ai. He combines deep expertise in data engineering, SOA, API management and DevOps with hands-on delivery of AI and ML services across computer vision, NLP and recommendation systems. Marcelo has driven IT culture transformations—introducing continuous delivery, DevOps practices and API-first design—while managing multidisciplinary teams and setting OKRs to align engineering with product and data science. His background spans digital publishing, cloud-native architectures and marketplace products (working on a “GitHub of AI” for datasets and models), reflecting both product and platform sensibilities. A PMP-, ITIL- and Scrum-certified practitioner and PhD candidate in Agile Software Development Management, he translates complex technical strategy into business value and stakeholder-friendly language. Notably, he has a history of evaluating and implementing enterprise API platforms and building serverless architectures for high-traffic news systems.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Research Doctorate Agile Portfolio Management;Lean Portfolio Management;Software Development Managent; DEA; AHP, Research Doctorate Agile Portfolio Management;Lean Portfolio Management;Software Development Managent; DEA; AHP at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeirohigh-school graduation N/A, high-school graduation N/A at Colégio de Integração Comunitária - CINCO
English, Portuguese, Spanish
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Github Skills (11)
varnish6
ahp3
analytical3
r-package3
azure-storage3
jira2
hierarchy2
cors2
fileshare1
virtual-machine1
azure-storage-explorer1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mcf-rocha/swagger-graph
Jun 2016 - Sep 2019
Contributions:17 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
mcf-rocha/iplan
Jun 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch, 3 comments in 2 years 10 months
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