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Experience
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Fine-tuning small language models for marketplace search-query understanding under 250ms latency budgets. Lead author on EMNLP 2025 industry-track paper on function-calling SLMs.
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer · Upwork Jan 2024 – Apr 2025
RAG and function-calling for Uma, Upwork’s Mindful AI. Owned retrieval context selection. Stack: SageMaker, Snowflake, HuggingFace, LlamaIndex, LangChain, OpenAI.
- Machine Learning Engineer · Upwork Sep 2022 – Jan 2024
LLM fine-tuning, RAG, function calling, knowledge graphs and graph neural networks for information retrieval.
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Protein language models for variant prediction and drug-design retrieval, in collaboration with the MIT CSAIL group.
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Built a state-of-the-art variant prediction model now used by Brazil’s national newborn screening program (“Teste da Bochechinha”). Deployed an end-to-end SARS-CoV-2 prediction pipeline that closed a contract with Instituto Butantan. Led MLOps and data-engineering standardization across teams.
- Data Scientist · OLX Brasil Apr 2019 – Sep 2020
Churn prediction with sequence models (>90% sensitivity), computer-vision item-category suggestion, Bayesian ad-appeal scoring, and the in-house NLP library used by analysts to detect “hot leads” in chat.
- Biotechnology Data Scientist · Shell Jul 2018 – Mar 2019
Bioproducts yield and morphology prediction and optimization. Increased bioproduct yield by 30% via Box-Behnken design, genetic algorithms, and deep-learning optimization on small-data regimes.
Education
- MSc, Health Informatics · Karolinska Institutet 2026 – present
- BSc, Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) · Heriot-Watt University
- BSc, Information Systems · UNIRIO (Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro) 2019 – 2024
- Medicine — formally studied before moving fully into machine learning; kept as a serious intellectual interest in biomedical AI and diagnostics.
Selected skills
LLM fine-tuning · function calling · RAG · graph neural networks · protein language models · Python · PyTorch · AWS SageMaker · Snowflake · LangChain / LlamaIndex · Weights & Biases.