William Fernandes
Data Scientist
Minas Gerais, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Fernandes is a Data Scientist with 14 years of experience who applies deep learning and NLP to practical industry problems, currently developing machine learning solutions for security at Microsoft. He holds a PhD in Informatics from PUC-Rio and has led research teams at ExACTa coordinating projects across NLP, computer vision, real-time analytics and process mining. His background spans academic research, product-focused ML prototyping at VTEX, and building language-focused extraction tools dating back to early FrameNet and quotations-extraction work in Portuguese. Comfortable bridging research and production, he’s practiced in requirements elicitation, AWS-based deployments, and translating legal-domain NLP research into applied systems. Based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, he brings a rare combination of long-term academic depth and hands-on engineering in security-focused ML.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de JaneiroBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Scientific Computing, Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Scientific Computing at Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (15)
vega5
whatsapp5
telegram5
visualization4
chat4
matplotlib4
vega-lite4
messaging4
python4
slack4
altair3
data-visualization3
declarative3
messenger3
electron3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
williamducfer/brazilian-court-decisions
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
williamducfer/scikit-learn
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
pythondata-sciencelearn-machine-learningmachine-learningscikit-learn
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