Marco Pires
Senior Program Manager, Google Labs
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolMarco Pires is a Senior Program Manager at Google Labs in São Paulo who bridges journalism, data, design and machine learning to advance transparency and democratic accountability. With 12+ years spanning frontline news production, investigative reporting, government technology advising and data-journalism capacity building, he has led Google News Lab partnerships across Latin America and helped found Brazil’s first data-journalism agency. His work combines hands-on product and program leadership with deep domain expertise in data literacy, having run School of Data programs and trained newsrooms and civic groups worldwide. A JSK affiliate at Stanford and alumnus of Knight-Wallace and Georgetown executive programs, he uniquely blends storytelling instincts with technical fluency in ML and generative AI. Not obvious from his title: he frequently moves between grassroots initiatives and big-tech programs, translating local newsroom needs into scalable, partner-driven solutions.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
The Business of Generative AI Artificial Intelligence, The Business of Generative AI Artificial Intelligence at Columbia Business School Executive EducationKnight-Wallace Associate-Fellow Data-journalism, Knight-Wallace Associate-Fellow Data-journalism at University of MichiganCommunication Journalism Web Internet, Communication Journalism Web Internet at Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisSpecial Executive Education Global Competitiveness Leadership, Special Executive Education Global Competitiveness Leadership at Georgetown UniversityJSK Affiliate Machine Learning, JSK Affiliate Machine Learning at Stanford University
Portuguese, Spanish, English, French
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Github Skills (58)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mtrpires/Advanced-Cleaning-With-Python
Apr 2016 - Aug 2019
Contributions:22 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
mtrpires/pySpidy
Mar 2014 - Dec 2015
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 10 months
pythonbrowserpython-webweb-crawlersimple-yet-powerful
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