Luis Moneda
Machine Learning Engineering Director - Applied AI Agents at Nubank
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolLuis Moneda is a seasoned data science leader with 12 years of experience, currently directing Data Science and leading Platforms in Customer Solutions at Nubank in São Paulo. He builds cross-functional teams that operationalize machine learning for customer service, transaction classification, and LLM-driven financial guidance, while also shaping company-wide data science talent and governance. His background spans hands-on model development for credit and fraud, launching ML at scale across Mexico, Colombia and Brazil, and mentoring engineers and interns. Luis contributes to education and localization—translating Scratch curriculum into pt-BR for Code Club and mentoring Udacity students—reflecting a strong commitment to growing the data science community. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from IME-USP and pairs rigorous academic training with practical product-focused delivery. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic leader who bridges research, governance, and platform engineering to make ML useful in production.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Economics, Bachelor's degree, Economics at School of Economics, Business and Accounting at the University of São PauloMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Ciência da Computação (IME-USP)Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Escola Politécnica da USP
Portuguese, English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
localization10
sc10
file-management8
merge-conflicts7
conflict7
mergetool7
conflict-resolution7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
RaspberryPiFoundation/scratch-curriculum
Dec 2015 - Apr 2016
Term 1 and 2 of Code Club, learning Scratch
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:44 commits, 24 PRs, 5 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Luis's primary contribution centers around translating Scratch curriculum materials into Portuguese (pt-BR). They modified Scratch project files (.sb2) by translating text, code, and potentially image assets within various educational modules. Furthermore, the user appears to have handled the merge of translation efforts and addressed conflicts arising from updates to the original content. The commits are focused on creating pt-BR versions for resources used in Code Club.
code-clubscratchterm
lgmoneda/time-robust-forest
Jun 2021 - Jul 2022
Leverage timestamp information to improve Random Forest out of distribution generalization.
Contributions:12 releases, 67 commits, 32 PRs in 1 year 1 month
random-foresttimestampmachine-learningmachine-learning-algorithmscausality
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