Vini Sousa - Senior Data Scientist

Vini Sousa

Senior Data Scientist

Santa Catarina, Brazil

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Vini Sousa is a Senior Data Scientist with 7 years of experience blending econometrics, applied statistics and MLOps to turn causal inference into business-ready measurement and personalization solutions. Currently at Mercado Livre, he leads development of causal measurement methodologies for marketing efficiency across multiple countries, building on prior roles that delivered LTV prediction, customer-level profitability, and offer personalization at Digio. Comfortable with distributed environments and production tooling (Spark, Docker, Flask/Plumber APIs), he combines rigorous academic training in economics and mathematical methods with hands-on software engineering for scalable data products. Pragmatic and curious, he often bridges Data Product Owners and engineering teams to operationalize experiments and causal models, making statistical rigor directly actionable for stakeholders.

7 years of coding experience

3 years of employment as a software developer

Graduate Summer School, Mathematics, Graduate Summer School, Mathematics at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Bachelor's degree, Economics, Bachelor's degree, Economics at Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina

Graduate Summer School, Mathematical Economics, Graduate Summer School, Mathematical Economics at Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada

International Student, Economics and Data Analysis, International Student, Economics and Data Analysis at University of Limerick

English, French

Github Skills (43)

r-package9

shiny-apps9

panel-data8

causal-inference7

shiny7

causality7

forecast7

causal7

tsne6

python6

toolbox6

julia5

science5

analytical5

Programming languages (3)

RJupyter NotebookPython

Github contributions (5)

viniciusmsousa/ds-toolbox

Apr 2021 - Nov 2021

ToolBox to help the data scientist analytical work.

Contributions:139 commits, 7 PRs, 94 pushes in 7 months

operationdata-analysispythondata-managementdata-science

viniciusmsousa/pyspark-ds-toolbox

Dec 2021 - Apr 2022

A Pyspark companion for data science tasks.

Contributions:174 commits, 45 PRs, 119 pushes in 3 months

pythonsciencedata-sciencemachine-learningspark

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