Ronald Pereira
Principal AI Engineer & Founding Team at cerradoX
Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Top SchoolRonald Pereira is a Principal AI Engineer and founding team member with a decade of experience building production-grade ML systems and back-end services, currently based in Minas Gerais, Brazil. He led fraud prevention and cross-platform Generative AI initiatives at iFood, shipping scalable detection models and multi-agent frameworks that balance risk mitigation with user experience. Ronald pairs an M.Sc. in Computer Science from UFMG specializing in fraud prevention with hands-on expertise in PySpark, AWS SageMaker, and end-to-end model deployment. He has a strong product mindset—architecting recommendation engines, RL-driven experimentation frameworks, and observability for ML in production. Equally comfortable in research and execution, he now drives enterprise AI strategy and LLM agent workflows at cerradoX after guiding high-impact partnerships at Confi. Known for mentoring technical teams, he brings curiosity-driven innovation grounded in measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at From 7th to 3rd year of High School on Colégio Magnum Agostiniano - Cidade NovaM.Sc Computer Science, M.Sc Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisEnglish Course, English Course at Cultura Inglesa
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (82)
pandas-dataframe10
agentic-ai10
javascript10
chatgpt10
facial-expression-recognition10
optimizer10
ai10
analyzer10
typescript10
world-of-warcraft10
agentic10
autogen10
react10
data-validation9
face-recognition9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ronaldpereira/galaxy-cluster-prediction
Dec 2018 - Nov 2022
Sloan Digital Sky Survey dataset class prediction using custom Neural Networks implementation in Keras+Tensorflow
Contributions:7 PRs, 14 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years 11 months
autoencoderskypredictiondeep-learningdataset
ronaldpereira/game-of-life
Jul 2015 - Mar 2020
Idea of the game made by John Horton Conway and remade by Ronald Pereira
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
gamegame-developmentjohnconwayjohn-horton-conway
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