Thársis Souza
Japan
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Top SchoolThársis Souza is a computer scientist and product leader with a decade of experience building AI-driven products across Wall Street hedge funds and Silicon Valley startups. He combines deep technical credentials—a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCL and earlier graduate degrees—with hands-on product management and teaching experience as a former Columbia lecturer. Co-creator of podcastfy.ai and co-author of O’Reilly’s LLMs - The Hard Parts, he focuses on practical, open-source solutions to real-world AI pitfalls. Based in Japan, he frames data and models as narrative tools, reflected in his GitHub tagline “building data-driven stories.” His background in persuasion from Columbia Business School complements a research-first approach to productizing AI, making him equally at home translating complex models for executives or iterating prototypes with engineers.
10 years of coding experience
Executive Education, Persuasion, Executive Education, Persuasion at Columbia Business SchoolB.Sc. Computer Engineering, B.Sc. Computer Engineering at Universidade Estadual de CampinasUniversity of São PauloUniversity College London
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (93)
elevenlabs10
quantitative10
convert10
financial-analysis10
stochastic-processes10
financial-markets10
gemini10
science10
data-science10
finance10
genai10
machine-learning10
podcast10
openai10
quantitative-finance10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
souzatharsis/souzatharsis.github.io
Mar 2016 - Feb 2025
My personal website
Contributions:403 pushes in 8 years 11 months
reactnextjs
souzatharsis/pyETT
Jun 2021 - Oct 2021
pyETT: Python library for Eleven VR Table Tennis data
Contributions:9 releases, 121 commits, 10 PRs in 4 months
python-librarypythontable-tennistennis
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