Thiago Lira
Staff Applied Machine Learning Scientist at Workiva
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolThiago Lira is a Staff Applied Machine Learning Scientist with 11 years of experience applying AI and statistics to real-world problems, currently leading applied ML efforts at Workiva. He has a strong research-to-production background, having developed Portuguese pretraining and fine-tuning datasets and NLP models at Itaú Unibanco and worked as an applied AI researcher at Articul8 AI. Thiago holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science (AI) from IME-USP and has built production features from deterministic geofencing systems to indoor Wi‑Fi localization using ensemble ML with 93% accuracy. He blends academic rigor with pragmatic engineering—publishing a technical blog and maintaining a GitHub presence while moving models into enterprise contexts. Colleagues describe him as someone who bridges the gap between novel AI research and scalable, data-driven products. He’s based in São Paulo and brings both deep language-model experience and practical systems design to cross-functional teams.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Escola Politécnica da USPMestrado em Ciências da Computação, Artificial Intelligence, Mestrado em Ciências da Computação, Artificial Intelligence at Instituto de Matemática e Estatística - Universidade de São Paulo (IME-USP)
latim, Italian, English, French, Portuguese, Japanese
Github Skills (60)
gaussian10
gaussian-processes9
polar9
emacs9
fortress9
stochastic-processes9
vim9
discord-py8
spacemacs8
emacs-lsp8
melpa8
pytorch8
modular7
discord7
dwarf7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
net-map/machinelearning_R
May 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:193 pushes, 1 branch, 3 comments in 6 months
ThiagoLira/gb-ts
Apr 2019 - Feb 2024
Gameboy emulator written on Typescript Language
Contributions:102 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 10 months
gameboyemulatorgameboy-emulatorjavascripttypescript
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