Vitor Sousa
Senior Data Scientist
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolVitor Sousa is a Senior Data Scientist based in Porto with 8 years of experience building production ML systems and end-to-end data products across e-commerce, retail loyalty, and industrial IoT. He has driven measurable business impact—improving size recommendation accuracy at FARFETCH (reducing returns and boosting coverage), and delivering predictive maintenance and customer-behavior solutions at PRIMAVERA and Sonae MC—while owning ETL, model deployment and A/B/causal evaluation. At Wellhub he focuses on GenAI, fine-tuning LLMs, embeddings and generative models to personalize experiences and optimize operations. Comfortable moving between software engineering and data science, he blends Azure/Databricks data engineering skills with advanced sequence and attention-based modeling. Colleagues rely on him to turn research-grade ideas into scalable, validated production services that influence product metrics.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Integrated Master's, Engineering and Management of Information System, Integrated Master's, Engineering and Management of Information System at Universidade do Minho
English
Github Skills (4)
data-science2
nlp2
deep-learning2
large-language-models1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vitorhcsousa/vitorhcsousa.github.io
Nov 2021 - Apr 2024
Contributions:1 release, 34 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 5 months
dssg-pt/mp-violencia-domestica
Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:32 commits, 18 pushes, 1 comment in 2 months
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