Mario Souto
CTO Co-Founder at Soma Energy
Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMario Souto is a CTO and co-founder with a decade of experience applying optimization, control and machine learning to energy and logistics systems. He has led the design and deployment of grid-scale battery decision engines and model predictive control systems, operating 100MW+ batteries in ERCOT and optimizing GW-scale renewable projects at AWS. His work spans from probabilistic forecasting and market bidding algorithms to high-fidelity simulation and production ML for transportation networks, demonstrating a rare blend of research rigor and production impact. Trained as a PhD electrical engineer, he has a track record of translating advanced control theory into web-scale optimization products and mentoring engineers in domain-specific software. Now based in Greater Vancouver, he’s steering Soma Energy toward commercial delivery of intelligent energy systems while maintaining deep technical involvement. An underappreciated strength is his history of building decision-support tooling across diverse industries, from telecom fault detection to financial risk scenario generation.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (15)
solver10
convex-optimization10
state-space10
sdp10
mixed-integer-programming10
kalman-filter10
exponential-smoothing10
julia10
optimization10
econometrics9
forecasting9
statistics9
time-series8
convex7
network3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mariohsouto/ProxSDP.jl
Jan 2018 - Jun 2021
Semidefinite programming optimization solver
Contributions:10 releases, 391 commits, 32 PRs in 3 years 5 months
semidefinite-programmingconic-programsconvex-optimizationoptimizationsolver
joaquimg/L1AdaptiveTrendFilter.jl
Feb 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:81 commits, 74 pushes, 9 branches in 3 months
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