Natã Barbosa
Senior Quantitative Researcher
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolNatã Barbosa is a Senior Quantitative Researcher at Netflix with 12 years of experience blending rigorous academic training (PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) with product-focused measurement and experimentation. He has driven large-scale UX and ads research at Google and Facebook, translating complex behavioral signals into actionable product metrics and in-product survey designs. As a co-founder of Flux he applies quantitative UX insights across product teams, pairing entrepreneurship with hands-on research practice. His earlier work spans trust, privacy, and ML ethics research at Airbnb and Figure Eight, yielding conference publications and a patent—evidence of his ability to move from theory to deployed impact. Based in Chicago, he combines deep statistical expertise with a pragmatic emphasis on measurable product outcomes and cross-functional collaboration. Colleagues describe him as someone who turns nuanced user behavior into clear, testable product levers rather than abstract findings.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer and Information Sciences General, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer and Information Sciences General at Católica de Santa Catarina - Centro UniversitárioMaster of Philosophy - MPhil Information Science and Technology, Master of Philosophy - MPhil Information Science and Technology at Syracuse UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Information Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Information Sciences at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
epub10
chrome-extension10
ebook-reader10
javascript9
browser9
passportjs7
jquery-plugin7
dokku2
mongodb2
location1
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apache-spark1
jupyter-notebook1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nbarbosa/epub.js
Oct 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:5 PRs, 21 pushes, 6 branches in 8 months
javascriptebooksbrowserchrome-extension
nbarbosa/friends-feed
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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