Summary
Thiago Lewin is a Senior Machine Learning Scientist based in Amsterdam with 15 years of software and applied research experience, blending deep math skills (statistics and linear algebra) with hands-on ML, NLP, computer vision and signal processing. He has driven production personalization and ranking systems at scale at Booking.com, building NLP pipelines, intent/entity models and a custom DSL for a rules engine while operating across Kafka, Spark, Kubernetes and AWS. Prior roles include architecting recommendation and A/B experimentation platforms, search relevancy improvements, and realtime web frameworks for high-traffic consumer products. Comfortable across the stack, he prototypes web-first business ideas and leverages dynamic languages, JS frameworks and NoSQL to move quickly from concept to production. His background in market research and as a data processing director gives him a rare combination of rigorous statistical practice and pragmatic engineering discipline. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic systems thinker who turns complex algorithms into reliable, scalable services.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of São Paulo
Portuguese, English, French, Spanish