Piero Kauffmann
Senior Member Of Technical Staff at Microsoft
São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolPiero Kauffmann is a Senior Research Engineer based in São Paulo with a decade of experience at the intersection of NLP, deep learning, and data science. He helped co-create Microsoft's Phi-model series and contributed to large language model pretraining efforts at Microsoft Research and MAI, bringing hands-on expertise in building state-of-the-art LLMs. Previously he led NLP initiatives at Itaú Unibanco, delivering production microservices (NER, few-shot classifiers, STS) and designing cloud architectures for model deployment on AWS. With an MS in Computer Science and a background in statistics, he combines rigorous academic training with production-grade engineering, uniquely bridging neural architecture search, model pretraining, and scalable NLP systems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at USP - Universidade de São Paulo
Portuguese, English, Italian
Github Skills (29)
pytorch10
python10
machine-learning10
model-compression10
hyperparameter-optimization10
deep-learning10
automl10
nas10
automated-machine-learning10
neural-architecture-search10
jupyter-kernels8
electron7
typescript7
r6
jupyter-notebook5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
piero2c/NLPortugues
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:4 pushes in 28 days
piero2c/unknown_pleasures
Dec 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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