Summary
Rodrigo Franco is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer based in São Paulo with 11 years of experience building and deploying ML and deep learning systems across industry and research. He has progressed from research-focused roles at Samsung—developing health-related signal-processing models and on-device algorithms for Galaxy watches—to production ML roles at QuintoAndar and now Nubank, where he helps scale models in high-impact fintech environments. Rodrigo combines strong hands-on skills in Python, PyTorch and embedded C with practical experience in data infrastructure (Spark, PostgreSQL, InfluxDB, Docker) and memory-optimized deployments. His background in imitation learning and autonomous-driving research, plus early work creating ML agents for games, gives him a rare blend of applied research instincts and production engineering discipline. Colleagues describe him as someone who moves fluidly between prototyping novel architectures and hardening them for constrained, real-world systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer technician, Computer technician at CEGEP
Master's degree Ciência da Computação, Master's degree Ciência da Computação at Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Bachelor's degree Engenharia de Computação, Bachelor's degree Engenharia de Computação at Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Sul de Minas Gerais
Portuguese, English, Spanish