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Leandro L. - Remote software engineer

Leandro L.

Based in: 🇺🇸 United States
Timezone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) (UTC-4)

Summary

Update: I joined Meta as a Machine Learning Engineer in March 2022.

I'm a Machine Learning Engineer with a Computer Science (BSc and MSc in Computer Science, and PhD in Bioinformatics). I have been a Python and R Programmer since 2009 and I have experience both as a Computer Science lecturer and as a Data Scientist.

I can help you with from the data acquisition and data wrangling to training and testing Machine Learning models and deploying to them to production.

Let's talk!

Work Experience

Machine Learning Engineer
Meta/Facebook | Mar 2022 - Present
Python
SQL
Apache Spark
Apache Hive
I'm using ML to serve Video Recommendations for Facebook Reels.
Bioinformatician II
Gladstone Institutes | Sep 2016 - Mar 2022
Python
R
Machine Learning
Statistics
I apply Machine Learning techniques in genomic data to understand why people develop ALS and Parkinson's disease. I also lead a workshop in R and command-line tools.

Education

University of São Paulo
Doctor's degree・Bioinformatics
Aug 2011 - Jul 2015
University of São Paulo
Master's degree・Computer Science
Mar 2007 - Aug 2009