Summary
Patrick Ferraz is a Senior Data & AI Engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native, production-grade AI systems and founding multiple data-driven startups. He blends hands-on engineering (Golang, Python, React, Terraform) with product-led architecture, having designed lakehouses, multi-agent GenAI platforms, and end-to-end MLOps pipelines across GCP, Azure and hybrid environments. As a founder and technical leader he has shipped MVPs and commercial products for fintech, gaming and gastronomy, and excels at translating C-level strategy into measurable ROI and NPS-driven data products. He also cultivates talent as a professor and R&D advisor, applying HPC, IoT and applied research to industrial challenges. Unusually for an industry practitioner, he is pursuing advanced studies in quantum computing and industrial innovation, signaling a strong research-to-product mindset.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), GETEC - Quantum Computing & Industrial Innovation, Master of Science (M.S.), GETEC - Quantum Computing & Industrial Innovation at Universidade CIMATEC
Master of Science (M.S.) – Credits Completed / Candidacy, Computer Science (Data Science), Master of Science (M.S.) – Credits Completed / Candidacy, Computer Science (Data Science) at Universidade Federal da Bahia
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz
Portuguese, English