Summary
Washington Ramos is a software engineer at Google with 11 years of experience and a strong research background, holding a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. His expertise spans computer vision, vision-and-language, and reinforcement learning, informed by a Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship and a visiting researcher stint at Lancaster University. He pairs academic rigor with production engineering, moving from early roles in web and systems development to building scalable ML-infused products at a major tech company. Based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, he brings deep familiarity with both research pipelines and practical software delivery across diverse teams. Notably, his trajectory includes hands-on face-recognition research and international collaboration, signaling an ability to translate novel ML ideas into deployable systems.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais / PUC-MG
Dr. Euzébio Dias Bicalho
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
High School, High School at Padre João de Mattos Almeida
Portuguese, English