Rafael Da Costa
Lead Data Scientist
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolRafael Da Costa is a Lead Data Scientist based in São Paulo with 12 years of experience blending machine learning, software engineering and product-minded analytics to turn complex data into actionable business outcomes. He has led data teams and built production ML solutions across sectors—from optimizing PPC at Booking.com to boosting lawyer productivity and litigation predictions at a legal tech firm—often coupling statistical rigor with domain expertise. A former CTO and senior engineer, he brings hands-on experience shipping mobile apps, games and drivers, and has a track record of shortening development cycles through pragmatic technology choices. Internationally awarded as a developer and entrepreneur, Rafael is equally comfortable prototyping novel term-weighting schemes for text tasks or integrating ML into product roadmaps, and he frequently bridges gaps between data science and engineering to deliver measurable impact.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Universidade Estadual Paulista 'Júlio de Mesquita Filho'
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (4)
pattern3
java3
builder-pattern2
jbpm1
Github contributions (5)
fanta-mnix/ServiceStack
Dec 2013 - Jan 2014
Contributions:4 commits in 1 month
fanta-mnix/designer
Oct 2014 - May 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 7 months
javaweb-basedjbpmbpmn2
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