Thierry Silbermann
Chief Data Scientist
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolThierry Silbermann is a Chief Data Scientist based in Lisbon with 12 years of experience building and leading ML teams and production data products across fintech, health, and startups. He combines deep academic roots in matrix factorization from a PhD trajectory with hands-on leadership at Nubank, where he also organized Latin America’s largest Machine Learning meetup, and tech lead roles that turned research into scalable systems. Thierry has a track record of shipping recommender and classification systems (from social recommenders to fraud and product analytics) and tuning pipelines across Java, Scala, Python and big-data stacks. Now guiding data strategy at The After Cancer, he brings a rare blend of research rigor, community-building, and practical deployment experience to mission-driven ML problems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, GPA: 3.19/4.00, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, GPA: 3.19/4.00 at Illinois Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science, Computer Science, Graduated with Highly Honorable with Praise, Master of Science, Computer Science, Graduated with Highly Honorable with Praise at Ecole Supérieure d'Informatique, Electronique et Automatique), Paris
French, English, malgache, Japanese, German, Portuguese
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Github Skills (2)
factorization6
machine-learning3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
thierry-silbermann/42_Piscine_July2015
Sep 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 6 months
thierry-silbermann/libfm_python
Sep 2013 - Feb 2015
Contributions:25 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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