Summary
Walysson Barbosa is a delivery-focused engineering manager and machine learning engineer with 12 years of experience and a 6+ year specialization in computer vision and applied ML. He has led data science teams deploying production-ready vision systems for physical security—such as license plate and facial recognition—and now manages delivery of high-quality training data for LLMs at Turing. His background combines academic research (peer-reviewed publications from his UFMG master’s work on image restoration) with hands-on software engineering experience at institutions like the Space Telescope Science Institute. Comfortable bridging research, product and ops, he excels at refining guidelines and pipelines to turn complex ML models into reliable, deployable solutions. Adaptable and collaborative, he brings cross-disciplinary experience from astrophysics tooling to smart-camera AI deployments, which helps him navigate both technical and stakeholder challenges.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Technician Informatics, Computer Technician Informatics at Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Alagoas
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Alagoas
Master’s Degree Computer Science (Computer Vision and Machine Learning), Master’s Degree Computer Science (Computer Vision and Machine Learning) at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Exchange Student Computer Science, Exchange Student Computer Science at The Catholic University of America
Portuguese, English, Spanish