René Dias
Co-Founder at Midwest Labs
Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolRené Dias is a data and software engineering leader with 13 years of experience building scalable cloud-native data platforms and applied ML systems, now co-founding Midwest Labs after leading data engineering at Trinus.Co. He combines hands-on expertise in Spark, Airflow, dbt, Kubernetes and Python/Scala with a research background in mechatronics and discrete optimization that produced practical wins—like cutting telecom cable lengths by a third to expand affordable internet in rural Brazil. René has moved projects from prototype ML/NLP pipelines into production data lakehouse architectures and helped formalize analytics engineering and platform chapters. A pragmatic innovator, he focuses on turning large, messy data into business intelligence that drives social impact—most recently to help families access affordable housing.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Bucknell UniversityBachelor's degree Mechatronic Engineering, Bachelor's degree Mechatronic Engineering at Universidade Federal de Uberlândia - UFUMaster's degree Mechatronics Systems, Master's degree Mechatronics Systems at Universidade de Brasília
Portuguese, English, French
Github Skills (82)
pii10
metadata10
fairness-ml10
cython10
nlp10
text-classification10
transformer-architecture10
named-entity-recognition10
language-processing10
turkish10
data-validation9
industrial9
dia9
day-count9
ai9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
reneoctavio/Cheque
Sep 2013 - Jan 2021
Cheque | An Application to help you keep track of checks in your custody | Aplicativo para ajudá-lo a manter informações de cheques em sua custódia
Contributions:1 release, 18 commits, 4 PRs in 7 years 5 months
keepaplicativoreact-nativecustodyandroid
reneoctavio/plantas
May 2016 - Feb 2021
Contributions:14 pushes in 4 years 9 months
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