Marcelo Ribeiro
Senior Data Scientist Acquirer Fraud Prevention
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Top SchoolMarcelo Ribeiro is a Senior Data Scientist with nine years of experience applying statistics and machine learning to solve real-world problems across fintech, real estate, IoT, e-commerce and logistics. He has driven production-ready solutions at companies like Nubank, Loft and IBM, specializing in fraud prevention, city-level pricing and predictive maintenance using Databricks, BigQuery, Azure/GCP/AWS and modern ML stacks (Scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow). Marcelo combines strong engineering practices (OOP, modularization, CI with GitHub Actions) with rigorous validation and impact analysis, having demonstrated multi-hundred-thousand-dollar annual savings on IoT projects and large accuracy improvements in product models. Comfortable collaborating with data engineers, MLOps and product teams, he blends academic training in mathematical modeling with hands-on deployment experience. Based in Rio de Janeiro, he brings a rare mix of cross-domain breadth and production-focused depth that consistently improves maintainability and business outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Mathematical Modeling, Master's degree Mathematical Modeling at FGV - Fundação Getulio VargasMaster's degree Political Science and Government, Master's degree Political Science and Government at UERJPontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
English, French, Portuguese
Github Skills (17)
modeling5
topic-modeling5
cryptocurrency4
trading4
bitcoin4
finance4
crypto4
python4
nlp4
binance3
algorithmic-trading3
ocr3
trading-bot3
cryptocurrencies3
quora2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Marcelobbr/thesis
Feb 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:86 commits, 64 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
AlertaDengue/tweet_classifier
Apr 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:57 commits, 53 pushes, 2 comments in 9 months
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