Thiago Porto is a data analyst and engineer with 14 years of experience building visualizations, analytics platforms, and data infrastructure for organizations ranging from Gapminder to professional football clubs. He kickstarted Vizabi at Gapminder and later founded SPORTRAC, developing player-tracking frameworks and custom algorithms to turn match data into scouting insights. As tech lead at OpenMined he bridged research-grade privacy tooling with product development, and now applies sports analytics at Atalanta B.C. based in Italy. His background blends rigorous academic work (MSc from Uppsala, PhD candidacy in Operations Research) with hands-on front-end and back-end engineering across Python, d3.js and large-scale systems. Colleagues value him for shipping polished visual stories from noisy data and for translating research ideas into production-ready tooling. A less obvious thread through his career is a sustained focus on sports and social behavior data, from Twitter research to elite football analytics.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
PhD candidate Operations Research, PhD candidate Operations Research at University of Miami
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at Uppsala University
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