Ricardo Sousa
Founder & Principal Architect at Continuum Pulse
Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolRicardo Sousa is a PhD-level AI leader and founder with 15+ years building multimodal ML, NLP, and computer vision systems that translate research into product impact. As Founder and Principal Architect of Continuum Pulse and OlympicOS, he architects high-reliability, sovereign AI infrastructures and incubates B2B SaaS—most notably applying predictive multimodal models to youth sports talent development. Previously at Farfetch he led conversational agents and recommendation models that drove over $16M in revenue uplift, and he has deep experience operationalizing Zero-Hallucination RAG, agentic workflows, and clinical-grade AI coaching. He combines hands-on model engineering with enterprise strategy as a fractional CAIO for US/EU clients, reducing time-to-value by building on pre-existing foundry IP. An academic turned entrepreneur, he retains an active research pedigree in transfer learning and reject-option algorithms, which informs his focus on robust, provable AI systems.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do PortoBachelor's degree (Licenciatura), Computer Science, Bachelor's degree (Licenciatura), Computer Science at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto | FCUPEnglish, English at Wall Street Institute
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (29)
marketplace8
classifier7
fetch7
natural-language-processing7
computer-vision7
wordnet6
conversational-ai6
bengali6
glove5
chatbot5
nlp5
conversational-agents5
topic-modeling5
fasttext5
lda5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rjgsousa/rjgsousa.github.io
Oct 2020 - Aug 2024
Contributions:63 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 10 months
rjgsousa/RSROSVM
Sep 2015 - Oct 2020
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 5 years 2 months
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