Tarciso Braz
Data Scientist
Paraíba, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolTarciso Braz is a Data Scientist with 14 years of experience building data pipelines, predictive models, and analytics platforms across domains such as politics, transportation, human development and music. He combines strong academic training (MSc and BSc in Computer Science) with hands-on R and Python expertise to deliver societally impactful projects, notably modeling COVID-19 infection patterns in South Korea and predicting long-term unemployment for a government agency during a Data Science for Social Good fellowship. Comfortable from research prototypes (computer vision and collaboration network analysis) to production data engineering, he has a track record of designing end-to-end pipelines and stakeholder-facing dashboards. Based in Paraíba, Brazil, he blends classical algorithmic skills with applied ML (NLP, recommender systems) and a practical knack for turning messy, cross-domain data into actionable insight.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of California, DavisNanodegre, Data Science, Nanodegre, Data Science at UdacityMaster's degree, Computer Science, 9.44, Master's degree, Computer Science, 9.44 at Universidade Federal de Campina Grande
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (13)
backend9
bus9
temporal8
data-science8
mongodb8
python7
golang6
rio5
java-api5
api4
java4
django4
virtual-machine3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
analytics-ufcg/busminer
May 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:50 commits, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
analytics-ufcg/people-paths
Nov 2016 - Apr 2019
Socio-spatio-temporal analysis of people movement in a city from bus ticketing data
Contributions:210 commits, 4 PRs, 165 pushes in 2 years 4 months
spatio-temporalbusticketingtemporalspatio-temporal-analysis
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