Industry2

I am passionate about entrepreneurship and industry collaboration.

Enterpreneurship

• CashU
  • I am a co-founder of CashU, where I am the Chief Data Scientist.
  • The company is a Brazilian Fintech that is revolutionizing credit for Small Businesses in LATAM. we use state-of-the-art machine learning methods to offer BNPL solutions for e-commerce and marketplaces B2B.
  • Investors: ABSeed Ventures, Caravela Capital, Bertha Capital, and SCALEXOPEN.
• ProtMat Advanced Materials
  • I co-founded ProtMat during my Master’s in Material Science.
  • The company produces advanced biomaterials for the dental industry, focusing on the digital dentistry supply chain.
  • Investor: FINEP, a federal institution in Brazil for innovation and research.

Applied Projects

• Development Bank from the State of Minas Gerais - Brazil (BDMG)
  • I collaborated closely with the risk team to enhance their risk analysis scorecards by integrating state-of-the-art machine learning techniques while ensuring the incorporation of fairness considerations.
• GetNinjas
  • While working with the GetNinjas pricing team for my job market paper, I engaged in discussions covering various areas such as experimentation, pricing strategies, and advertising, broadening my understanding of related challenges and opportunities in a high-growth tech company in LATAM.
• Digital Lab - Americanas
  • Before joining Columbia, I held the position of Data Scientist at Digital Lab, a research center at PUC-Rio. In this role, I worked on pricing optimization and demand forecasting methods for Lojas Americanas, a prominent Brazilian retailer boasting over 1500 stores.