André Fernandes

Machine Learning Engineer / Data Scientist

Basic Information

Birth date
04-09-1997
Nationality
Portuguese (C1 English level)
Education
MSc Computer Engineering at FEUP
Erasmus
VSB - Technical University of Ostrava
Email
fernandoandre49@gmail.com

Academics and Experience

2018

Jumpseller

Machine Learning Engineer

Created the recommendations Engine - NLP pipelines on AWS Sagemaker/Glue - Word embeddings with Word2Vec - Tensorflow. Online session-based GRU4REC with MlOps setup.

2021

Farfetch

Machine Learning Engineer

Recommendations cluster - ETL pipelines on Azure Databricks - Personalised fashion outfits via an LSTM Tensorflow model - Model serving with Gunicorn, Docker, MLFlow and Kubernetes - Batch processing via Spark. Matrix factorization + serving dot product recommendations.

2023

Revolut

Data Scientist

Fincrime department - CNP transactions fraud detection - Gradient Boosting regression trees via lightgbm.

2024

Tripadvisor

Machine Learning Engineer

Langchain agent for creating a travel assistant bot - NLP pipelines with sentence embeddings

Skills

Tech
  • Python
  • Data-science libraries Tensorflow, Numpy, Pandas, etc...
  • Docker + Kubernetes
  • Relational (PostgreSQL/MySQL) + Non Relational (MongoDB/DynamoDB) + Vector (Vespa.ai) DBs
Extra
  • AlumniEI FEUP
  • Google Hash Code(2016/2019/2020)
  • Make It or Break It 2018
  • Porto Circular 101
  • RUTIS Volunteer Professor
  • Banco Alimentar contra a Fome
  • JobIT