Maurício – Python, AWS, LLM
Maurício is a seasoned AI Engineer with a background in data science and machine learning, holding a Master’s in Computer Science and publications in NLP and Computer Vision. Skilled in back-end development with AWS Lambda, Python, and DynamoDB, and experienced in integrating LangChain and managing SQS-based workflows.
He recently delivered GenAI projects and built AI-powered applications, managing a 12-person team while remaining hands-on in development.
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AI Engineer & Tech Lead
It's a data workflow that matches verbatim with existing engineering/meta-function issues.
- Built the full POC to validate the LLM-based solution.
- Implemented function calling on both client and server within the internal GenAI platform.
- Designed and optimized a RAG pipeline with an in-memory database.
- Applied prompt engineering techniques to improve model outputs.
- Developed data connectivity for the MVP, integrating external APIs and internal systems.
- Defined and delivered data engineering needs for the MVP.
- Designed and specified API requirements to support the MVP.
Tech Lead
It's a data workflow that processes Warranty Claims verbatim from dealers and provides a Dashboard to Quality pre-analysts with the main component-defect pairs.
- Developed comprehensive regression tests (unit & integration).
- Designed the end-to-end solution using sub-sample clustering and UMAP-based dimension reduction for scalability.
- Identified and resolved sparse data issues with UMAP.
- Implemented 30% of the full workflow in Databricks.
- Provided technical guidance to both Data Engineers and Data Scientists.
- Managed integration with Palantir Foundry, handling both inputs and outputs.
- Led all LLM-related development, being the project’s sole GenAI expert.
Back-end Developer
It's a GenAI Gateway for compliant LLM access.
- Gathered and managed feature requests, translating real use cases into product development.
- Built a unified integration with Bedrock and OpenAI models.
- Implemented function calling, LLM parametrization, and prompt engineering.
- Transitioned the system to a multi-modality approach leveraging new LLMs.
- Ensured reliability by writing unit tests, debugging issues, and resolving application errors.
- Produced documentation and delivered a live platform demo to 600+ employees at the company.
- Provided ongoing client support throughout the project.
AI Engineer
It's an algorithm to find hierarchical patterns in proteins.
- Designed, developed, and deployed two solutions from scratch: a heuristic search and a deep learning-based approach.
- Built a Streamlit front-end for data ingestion and visualization.
- Implemented a heuristic search algorithm leveraging amino acid count distributions.
- Developed a Deep Variational Autoencoder trained on synthetic data to learn protein embeddings.
AI Engineer
It's a venture capital analyst agent that scrapes the Internet and provides a complete report about a certain startup.
- Developed the full solution leveraging LangChain and LlamaIndex.
- Built a Streamlit front end enabling interactive rule additions.
- Containerized the application with Docker Compose using a Selenium image.
- Integrated the OpenAI API for LLM capabilities.
- Deployed the solution on AWS for scalability and accessibility.