William Colen
Director Of Artificial Intelligence at Blip
Greater São Paulo Area Brazil
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Top SchoolWilliam Colen is a Director of Artificial Intelligence based in Greater São Paulo with 15 years of experience building production-grade NLP and ML systems and leading cross-functional engineering organizations. He has progressed from hands-on NLP engineering and founding a Portuguese NER startup to C-level AI leadership at Stilingue and now directs AI at Blip, driving A.I.-first product strategies across large organizations. An Apache Software Foundation member and long-time committer on Apache OpenNLP, he blends open-source stewardship with enterprise delivery, particularly for Brazilian Portuguese language technologies. William pairs rigorous academic training (MSc in Computer Science, USP) with a track record of forming and scaling AI teams that turn research prototypes into robust products. Notably, his career spans both deep technical contributions (CoGrOO, OpenNLP) and strategic product transitions, making him fluent in both code and C-suite decision-making.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
English
Github Skills (16)
opennlp10
languagetool10
grammar10
rule-based10
nlp10
libreoffice10
apache10
openoffice10
checker10
natural-language-processing10
java10
jbake9
portal8
dictionary7
uima7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cogroo/jspell.br
Jun 2012 - May 2014
Contributions:74 commits in 1 year 10 months
dictionarybraziliandictionariesportuguese-brazilian
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