Sara Malvar
Senior Research Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Brazil
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Top SchoolSara Malvar is a Senior Research Software Development Engineer at Microsoft with eight years of experience translating interdisciplinary research into production-ready AI systems. She blends a strong academic background—PhD in fluid mechanics and postdoctoral research—with applied machine learning to build multi-modal data intelligence platforms handling geospatial, genomics, and spatio-temporal data. Sara leads end-to-end feature lifecycles from system design and prototyping to demos, prioritizing accessibility of information through well-packaged research releases. She also teaches and mentors widely, having instructed and advised data science cohorts across industry programs and online platforms. Her background in physics-based modeling and hands-on electrical engineering gives her a rare ability to bridge theory, scalable software, and real-world deployment constraints. Based in Brazil, she focuses on data-driven solutions that unlock new analytics for emerging large-scale datasets.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Research Internship - PhD, Engineering, Research Internship - PhD, Engineering at Universidade de TóquioDepartamento de Eletrônica e Física Aplicada, Engenharia Elétrica e Eletrônica, Departamento de Eletrônica e Física Aplicada, Engenharia Elétrica e Eletrônica at Universidade de CAEN – ENSICAENResearch Internship - PhD, Engineering, Research Internship - PhD, Engineering at University of PennsylvaniaBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical Engineering, GPA - 3,7/4, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical Engineering, GPA - 3,7/4 at Universidade de BrasíliaUniversity of São Paulo
Portuguese, Spanish, English, Japanese
Github Skills (17)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
smalvar/FraudDetection
Jul 2019 - Feb 2021
Contributions:22 commits, 22 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 6 months
smalvar/PPG-RemoveMotion
Jun 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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