Summary
Matheus Franca is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer based in Zurich with 8 years of experience building ML systems in industry and research, currently scaling recommendation and content models at YouTube. Trained at École Polytechnique and KTH with a strong mathematical foundation, he bridges theory and practice across image classification, NLP, time series and graph models, and has three research publications from his master's work. Comfortable productionizing models in Python with PyTorch, TensorFlow, Flask and scikit-learn, he also brings practical experience with SQL and R. His career spans European and international labs and companies—from Osaka University research projects to hands-on engineering at Dailymotion and startups—highlighting an ability to move ideas from papers into production-grade systems.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Ingénieur Polytechnicien Data Science Computer science and applied mathematics, Ingénieur Polytechnicien Data Science Computer science and applied mathematics at École Polytechnique
Master's degree Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree Artificial Intelligence at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
First two years of Computer Engineering course Computer Engineering, First two years of Computer Engineering course Computer Engineering at Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica - ITA
Portuguese, English, French, Swedish