Thomas Da Silva Paula
Distinguished Technologist & Technical Director at HP
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Top SchoolThomas Da Silva Paula is a Distinguished Technologist and Technical Director with a decade of experience blending computer science, applied AI/ML research, and product-focused engineering across HP and ADP Brazil Labs. He leads cross-functional teams to operationalize generative AI and MLOps at scale, from designing company-wide ML strategy and reusable forecasting libraries to delivering RAG and LLM proofs-of-concept for investor relations and customer support. A proven executor, he has moved research into production repeatedly—deploying deep learning on edge devices, building common ML pipelines on Azure ML and Kubernetes, and establishing model management and monitoring practices. He also teaches unsupervised and deep learning courses, bringing academic rigor to industry problems, and is pursuing a PhD to deepen that applied-research bridge. Notably, he has guided 20+ teams through convergence on shared architectures and translated moonshot research (episodic memory agents, RL in simulation) into tangible business value.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Specialization Engenharia de Software Aplicada, Specialization Engenharia de Software Aplicada at Universidade FeevaleDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (59)
watson10
monitor10
python10
data-mining10
incremental-learning10
machine-learning10
gluon10
dvc10
deep-learning10
privacy-preserving10
fairness-ml10
recall10
data-science9
machine-learning-models9
model-management9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ml-poa/meetups
Mar 2019 - Jul 2021
Meetups
Contributions:24 commits, 3 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 years 4 months
tspthomas/fsdl2021_project
Mar 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:36 commits in 1 month
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