Rafael Ladeira
AI Engineer at Google
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Ladeira is an AI Engineer with 11 years of experience blending software engineering, quantitative research, and production ML to turn data into deployable, revenue-generating systems. He has led multidisciplinary teams and built in-house infrastructure for signal generation, portfolio optimization and risk management—co-managing a $100M systematic book at Verde Asset Management—before joining Google to focus on AI at scale. His background spans end-to-end delivery from data ingestion pipelines to trade generation, and he has a track record of embedding robust experimentation and continuous testing into production workflows. A former lead data scientist at Itaú, Rafael combines people leadership with deep technical craftsmanship, having also produced award-winning ML products in industrial settings. Based in São Paulo, he pairs academic rigor from a Control and Automation Engineering degree and ML immersion with a pragmatic, impact-first approach to solving complex business problems.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Colégio de Aplicação - CAp-COLUNI - UFVBachelor’s Degree Control and Automation Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Control and Automation Engineering at Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisMachine Learning Immersion Machine Learning, Machine Learning Immersion Machine Learning at Google - Advanced Solutions Lab
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (133)
python10
portable10
gradient10
science9
scalable9
dataflow9
gbm9
xgboost9
notebook9
ipython9
deep-learning9
flask9
pytorch9
machine-learning9
boosting9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rladeira/rDatasets
Jun 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 55 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
rladeira/rutils
Jun 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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