Raul Prado
Team Lead Data Scientist Data Engineer
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolRaul Prado is a Team Lead in Data Science and Engineering based in São Paulo with eight years of experience building production-grade fraud detection and ETL systems in InsurTech. He combines a PhD in Astrophysics and postdoctoral research at DESY with hands-on product delivery at Shift Technology, where he led teams, cut production runtimes by up to 50%, and helped deliver a fraud solution that could save a client an estimated $2.5M annually. Raul has scaled technical training across a 40+ data science organization and introduced release-testing processes that dramatically reduced production issues. Comfortable bridging research-grade simulations and enterprise ML engineering, he brings a rare mix of scientific rigor, people management (MBA in People Management), and practical impact-driven tooling.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, People Management, Master of Business Administration - MBA, People Management at MBA USP/EsalqDoctor of Philosophy - PhD (sandwish), Elementary Particle Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (sandwish), Elementary Particle Physics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)University of São Paulo
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
simulation10
pipeline5
imaging5
astronomy4
modeling2
gamma2
ray2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
RaulRPrado/tev-binaries-model
May 2020 - Apr 2021
Source code for modeling of the gamma-ray binary HESS J0632+057
Contributions:2 PRs, 47 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
gamma-raymodelingraygamma
gammasim/simtools
Jul 2019 - Mar 2022
Tools and applications for the Simulation System of the CTA Observatory.
Contributions:1 release, 130 reviews, 1080 commits in 2 years 8 months
ctaobservatorysimulationprototypesystem-simulation
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