Fernando Nogueira
Staff Data Scientist
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolFernando Nogueira is a Staff Data Scientist with eight years of experience building data products and analytics platforms across startups and scale-ups, now at Dropbox. A PhD-trained theoretical physicist, he combines deep mathematical rigor with hands-on ML and product analytics to design production-ready models, ETL pipelines, and experiment frameworks. He has led cross-functional initiatives—from homomorphic encryption work and a granted patent at Shopify to vendor-scoring algorithms and end-to-end data stacks at ResQ—that bridge data, product, and executive strategy. Comfortable shipping research into production, he actively experiments with deep learning and NLP and contributes open-source tools on GitHub. Proficient in Python, SQL and familiar with Scala, Spark, Go and R, he also teaches and mentors, having developed curricula for industry data science courses. Colleagues rely on him for turning complex probabilistic and privacy-aware ideas into measurable business impact.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at The University of British ColumbiaMaster's Degree Physics, Master's Degree Physics at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
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Github Skills (86)
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
seofernando25/home
Feb 2023 - Jan 2026
Contributions:2 PRs, 30 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
uorocketry/rgs
Sep 2022 - Jan 2026
uORocketry's Ground Station Infrastructure
Contributions:2 releases, 60 reviews, 100 PRs in 3 years 3 months
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