Victor Pontes
Senior Data Scientist
Alagoas, Brazil
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Top SchoolVictor Pontes is a Senior Data Scientist with six years of experience building production ML systems for major Brazilian fintechs and marketplaces, currently at Nubank. He combines strong statistical foundations and software engineering—Python, Go, APIs, Kubernetes—with practical expertise in causal inference, experiment design and optimization to drive measurable business impact across marketing, CRM, credit and logistics. Notable wins include a 9% unit-cost reduction in card-shipping logistics that saved millions, a reusable Python framework to measure offline media impact, and an API-driven policy optimizer for card issuance. He mentors teams, leads end-to-end productization of models and has delivered feature stores and reinforcement-learning CRM systems that scaled personalization. Trained originally as a petroleum engineer and researcher, Victor brings a rare blend of numerical modeling, optimization and real-world systems engineering to data science problems.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Nanodegree Natural Language Processing, Nanodegree Natural Language Processing at UdacityEngenharia de Petróleo Engenharia, Engenharia de Petróleo Engenharia at Universidade Federal de Alagoas
English
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Github contributions (5)
victor-pontes/Portfolio
Oct 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:37 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
victorpontesn/text_mining_medium
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:1 commit, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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