Roberto Pontes
Data Team Lead
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolRoberto Pontes is a Data Team Lead at Itaú Unibanco with eight years of experience building and operationalizing data science solutions across banking, retail and energy sectors. He combines hands-on modeling (propensity, recommendation and NLP) with people leadership, having led analytics engineering teams and coordinated R&D initiatives that reduced operational analysis time and improved conversion metrics. His work in daily banking delivered measurable lifts—e.g., a ~3.5% conversion gain from personalized card recommendation ordering—and he has driven deployments that move models from research into production. Roberto also teaches data science topics (Python, SQL, NumPy/Pandas) to corporate partners, translating advanced techniques into practical skills for industry teams. With a master’s in computer science and a background in mechatronics, he blends rigorous academic training with systems thinking and a knack for integrating structured and unstructured data. Based in São Paulo, he is adept at turning complex data problems into scalable, business-impacting solutions.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Pós-graduação Lato Sensu em Big Data, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES AND SUPPORT SERVICES, Pós-graduação Lato Sensu em Big Data, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES AND SUPPORT SERVICES at DescomplicaMestrado em Ciências da Computação, Computer Science, Mestrado em Ciências da Computação, Computer Science at Cefet/RJ - Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca
English
Github Skills (3)
rio9
pdi7
python5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
robertosgpontes/osem
Jun 2021 - Sep 2021
Optimizing the Management of Soil Erosion using Linear Program techniques
Contributions:4 PRs, 37 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
techniquespythonsoil-erosionlinearerosion
robertosgpontes/tec_prog_1
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
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