Paulo Costa
CEO at Sports Power AI
Miami-Fort Lauderdale Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaulo Costa is a CEO and founder specializing in applying advanced analytics and AI to sports, currently leading SportsPowerAI and its BAICA basketball coaching platform. He brings 11+ years of senior leadership driving data science teams at enterprises like Cisco, where his analytics organization delivered over $1B in bookings uplift and earned the AMA/NCDM Gold Medal. Paulo combines deep technical skills in time series forecasting, ML/DL, optimization, and AWS infrastructure with practical fluency in Matlab, Python, R and SAS. His work has been featured in HBR and the Wall Street Journal, reflecting a track record of turning sophisticated models into measurable business outcomes. With a BSc/MSc from PUC-Rio and executive certifications from MIT and Wharton, he blends strong academic rigor with entrepreneurial execution. Less obvious: he has successfully translated enterprise-scale analytics playbooks into a consumer-facing AI coaching product, bridging corporate analytics discipline with sports tech innovation.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Certification in Social Analytics, Certification in Social Analytics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPontifical Catholic University of Rio de JaneiroCertified in Marketing Analysis and Planning, Certified in Marketing Analysis and Planning at The Wharton School
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (19)
google-home10
addon10
ubuntu8
firefly8
docker-image7
compose7
ansible7
docker-compose7
raspberry7
libfdk-aac7
docker7
vaapi6
home-automation6
home-assistant6
nodejs6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
coostax/ha-addons
May 2022 - Mar 2025
HomeAssistant Add-ons
Contributions:52 PRs, 50 pushes, 52 branches in 2 years 10 months
add-onshacshome-automationhome-assistantons
fccn/ffmpeg
Nov 2017 - Feb 2020
Minimal FFmpeg Docker image built on Alpine Linux
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 3 months
libfdk-aacdocker-imagelinuxalpine-linuxdocker
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