Rui Ferreira
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Spotify
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRui Ferreira is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer based in England with a Ph.D. in Computer Science and 12 years of combined research and industry experience building large-scale ML systems for NLP, search, and text-to-speech. He has driven search and query-completion innovations at Microsoft and Facebook and now leads text-to-speech and search efforts at Spotify, blending deep algorithmic expertise with production engineering. Rui co-founded Prefixbox early on, helping shape its product foundations while continuing to advise, showing an entrepreneurial streak alongside his technical leadership. His background in graph algorithms and information retrieval underpins a pragmatic approach to scaling language technologies across diverse languages and markets.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Università di PisaErasmus, Computer Sciene, Erasmus, Computer Sciene at Delft University of TechnologyLicenciatura, Engenharia Informática e Computação, Licenciatura, Engenharia Informática e Computação at Universidade do Porto
English, Portuguese, ItalianProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ruiaf/sumnews
Mar 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:32 commits in 26 days
hpenedones/likewise
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:9 commits, 10 pushes in 3 days
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