Paulo Costa
CEO at Sports AI
Miami-Fort Lauderdale Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaulo Costa is a CEO and founder specializing in applying advanced analytics and AI to sports, currently leading SportsPowerAI and its BAICA basketball coaching platform. He brings 11+ years of senior leadership driving data science teams at enterprises like Cisco, where his analytics organization delivered over $1B in bookings uplift and earned the AMA/NCDM Gold Medal. Paulo combines deep technical skills in time series forecasting, ML/DL, optimization, and AWS infrastructure with practical fluency in Matlab, Python, R and SAS. His work has been featured in HBR and the Wall Street Journal, reflecting a track record of turning sophisticated models into measurable business outcomes. With a BSc/MSc from PUC-Rio and executive certifications from MIT and Wharton, he blends strong academic rigor with entrepreneurial execution. Less obvious: he has successfully translated enterprise-scale analytics playbooks into a consumer-facing AI coaching product, bridging corporate analytics discipline with sports tech innovation.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Certification in Social Analytics, Certification in Social Analytics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPontifical Catholic University of Rio de JaneiroCertified in Marketing Analysis and Planning, Certified in Marketing Analysis and Planning at The Wharton School
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
node-red9
home-assistant9
docker-compose8
docker8
docker-image7
ansible7
alpine-linux6
vaapi6
libfdk-aac6
raspberry-pi5
ffmpeg3
linux3
home-automation1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
fccn/ffmpeg
Nov 2017 - Feb 2020
Minimal FFmpeg Docker image built on Alpine Linux
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 3 months
libfdk-aacdocker-imagelinuxalpine-linuxdocker
fccn/wt-common
Nov 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:2 releases, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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