Piero Kauffmann
Senior Research Engineer at Microsoft
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolPiero Kauffmann is a Senior Research Engineer based in São Paulo with a decade of experience at the intersection of NLP, deep learning, and data science. He helped co-create Microsoft's Phi-model series and contributed to large language model pretraining efforts at Microsoft Research and MAI, bringing hands-on expertise in building state-of-the-art LLMs. Previously he led NLP initiatives at Itaú Unibanco, delivering production microservices (NER, few-shot classifiers, STS) and designing cloud architectures for model deployment on AWS. With an MS in Computer Science and a background in statistics, he combines rigorous academic training with production-grade engineering, uniquely bridging neural architecture search, model pretraining, and scalable NLP systems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of São Paulo
Portuguese, English, Italian
Github Skills (38)
modular10
architecture10
model-compression10
nas10
automated-machine-learning10
neural-architecture-search10
pytorch9
python9
machine-learning9
deep-learning9
hyperparameter-optimization9
automl9
tensorflow8
typescript8
neural-network8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
piero2c/NLPortugues
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:4 pushes in 28 days
piero2c/unknown_pleasures
Dec 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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