Summary
Ravel Antunes is an experienced technology leader and AVP of Machine Learning Engineering with 13 years of experience building AI-driven systems across enterprise and startup environments. He currently leads ML engineering at HCA Healthcare after directing Data & MLOps and emerging tech initiatives at The Walt Disney Company, where he applied robotics, sensor fusion, AR/VR and big-data architectures to improve guest experiences. As a co-founder and CTO of HotSwitch he raised seed funding and built interactive media platforms, blending product intuition with hands-on engineering and MLOps best practices. Known for bringing software development rigor to ML projects—CI/CD, versioned model training, and near-real-time data pipelines—he balances architecture strategy with team building and delivery. Based in Orlando, he pairs a formal background in software development and autonomous systems study with practical experience shipping large-scale, production ML systems.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Self-Driving Car Engineer Artificial Intelligence, Self-Driving Car Engineer Artificial Intelligence at Udacity
A.S. Degree in Computer Programming & Analysis Software Development, A.S. Degree in Computer Programming & Analysis Software Development at Valencia College
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Western Governors University
UCF ML/Deep-Learning Graduate Level 1-year Program Artificial Intelligence, UCF ML/Deep-Learning Graduate Level 1-year Program Artificial Intelligence at University of Central Florida
English, Portuguese, Spanish