Summary
Vinícius Barros is a Lead Senior Data Scientist based in São Paulo with 12 years of experience building cloud-native systems and production-grade AI solutions. He combines deep expertise in Generative AI, LLMs and RAG with hands-on MLOps and knowledge-graph design to turn complex data into actionable products. At AI Collaborator and previously IBM he led LLM integrations, fine-tuning (LoRA/PERFT) and vector-store architectures that power retrieval-augmented applications. His background as a cloud architect and full-stack engineer informs pragmatic, scalable deployments across AWS and GCP, from legacy migration to modern Kotlin/Spring backends. A researcher-turned-practitioner, he also developed novel IoT interoperability architectures during his MSc work, showing a knack for bridging theory and production.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Distributed Systems, Master of Science - MS Distributed Systems at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
Isolated Disciplines Computer Science, Isolated Disciplines Computer Science at Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Universidade Federal do Tocantins
Portuguese, English