Valeria De Souza
Research Manager at Malkin Holdings, LLC
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolValeria De Souza is a data science leader and founder with over eight years of experience applying AI and analytics to financial products across Brazil. She has led and scaled cross-functional teams at startups and major fintechs—driving credit and investment model improvements that cut losses and doubled conversion rates while launching an AI-driven investment recommendation platform. As Research Manager at Malkin Holdings and founder of Cognita Data Science, she blends hands-on modeling expertise with product-focused stakeholder management and pragmatic prioritization. Trained as an aeronautical-mechanical engineer from ITA, she brings a systems-thinking mindset to building robust data platforms and governance that enable repeatable, high-impact experiments. An uncommon strength is her track record of hiring and growing teams quickly while delivering measurable business outcomes (e.g., 20% credit loss reduction and a 20x campaign uplift).
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Aeronautical-Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Aeronautical-Mechanical Engineering at Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica - ITA
Portuguese, English, German
Github Skills (5)
machine-learning8
data-analysis8
python8
data-science7
ml5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
nubank/fklearn
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
fklearn: Functional Machine Learning
Contributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 day
data-analysispythondata-sciencemlmachine-learning
hissashirocha/git_training
May 2019 - May 2019
This is a Github repository for training purposes
Contributions:1 branch in 1 day
pythonmachine-learningtraining
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