Thiago Galery is a founder and technology leader with 12 years of experience building production-grade ML and NLP pipelines across startups and enterprise products. After earning a PhD from UCL, he has led data science and R&D teams that translate academic research into scalable systems for recommendation, entity linking, QA, and experimentation platforms. He co-founded Smartif.ai to deliver bespoke AI systems and now leads technology at Griot Platforms, while also contributing to open-source projects like DBpedia Spotlight and mentoring in Google Summer of Code. Comfortable with end-to-end stacks (Spark, Luigi, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform) and pragmatic about product delivery, he blends hands-on engineering, academic rigor, and stakeholder-facing product ownership. An uncommon strength is his background in philosophy and linguistics, which informs his approach to language-centric ML and interpretable systems.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Philosophy, Distinction (equivalent), MA, Philosophy, Distinction (equivalent) at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais / UFMG
Visiting Fellow, Linguistics and Philosophy, Visiting Fellow, Linguistics and Philosophy at Universitetet i Oslo (UiO) / University of Oslo
PhD, Linguistics, Pass, PhD, Linguistics, Pass at University College London, U. of London
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