Sidney Leal
Data Scientist Researcher
Minas Gerais, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolSidney Leal is a seasoned data scientist and NLP researcher with a PhD in Computer Science and Mathematical Computing from ICMC-USP and over 30 years of technology project experience spanning development, architecture, management and research. Currently a postdoctoral NLP researcher and Data Scientist at Venturus, he blends deep academic expertise with hands-on industry work in generative AI, LLMs, Google Cloud, AutoML and deployable ML systems. Sidney has led technical teams for large accounts (América Móvil), driven DevOps and observability initiatives with ELK and Kubernetes, and built analytics platforms for banks, governments and multinationals. Certified as a Google ML Engineer and formerly as an Oracle Java Programmer and Microsoft Certified Professional, he uniquely couples formal AI research with pragmatic production deployments. Known for moving fluidly between research, architecture and operations, he often surfaces practical ML/DevOps patterns from exploratory NLP work that accelerate adoption in enterprise environments.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharel, Ciência da Computação, Bacharel, Ciência da Computação at Centro Universitário Nove de JulhoMaster of Business Administration (MBA), Gestão da Tecnologia da Informação, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Gestão da Tecnologia da Informação at UNIARAMongoDB for DBA’s / MongoDB for Java Developers, BigData, MongoDB for DBA’s / MongoDB for Java Developers, BigData at MongoDB UniversityTécnico, Processamento de Dados, Técnico, Processamento de Dados at Colégio Mário de AndradeUniversity of São Paulo
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (32)
observability10
heartbeat10
kibana10
filebeat10
logstash10
elasticsearch10
elastic10
visualizations10
metricbeat9
packetbeat9
angular8
react8
typescript8
javascript8
nodejs8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sidleal/porsimplessent
Mar 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:32 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
sidleal/simpligo-pln
Dec 2017 - Jan 2025
Contributions:143 pushes, 1 issue in 7 years 2 months
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