About me

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Sep 03, 2024: I started my masters in Computational Science and Engineering at Harvard University.
Nov 22, 2023: I accepted an offer to join deco.cx to work on creating personalized experiences for the clients using Machine Learning.
Jun 20, 2023: I interned at Google for the second time, this time at the YouTube team.
Jan 09, 2023: I interned at Meta for the second time, this time at the App Ads Platform team.
May 23, 2022: I started interning at Praso, being responsible for developing their mobile app.
Jan 10, 2022: First person in my home university to intern at Meta.
Sep 03, 2021: Honored to become a Fundação Estudar's Tech Fellow, class of 2021.
Aug 09, 2021: First person in my home university to intern at Google.

Hey! I am first-year Computational Science and Engineering masters student at Harvard University. I completed my undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB) in Brazil. My interests rely on Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering, and I love business and innovation.

During my undergraduate degree, I was a member of the Artificial Intelligence Applications Laboratory (ARIA Lab) UFPB. There, I have contributed to projects and research (published two papers) and worked on my final thesis (Deco AI Sales Assistant: Leveraging LLMs to create a personalized and on-demand e-commerce experience) under the lab's supervision.

In addition to my academic pursuits, I co-founded TAIL (Technology and Artificial Intelligence League), a non-profit organization oriented by the ARIA Lab professors. The academic league aims to teach new students, produce content, contribute to the AI and Data Analysis field, and help the members achieve their goals (internships, graduation programs, full-time jobs). It currently has more than 65 active members throughout Brazil and other countries.

On the industry side, I have interned twice at Google (YouTube and Search), twice at Meta (AI for AR and Ads), and I had experiences in startups (Praso and Atoptima). I am also a Fundação Estudar's Tech Fellow (One of 1.5% approved over 1265 applications in 2021).

I like running, playing football (the one and only ⚽), surfing, and reading in my spare time.

You can get in touch with me at itamardprf@gmail.com, visit my GitHub, or connect with me in Linkedin. You can learn more about my career in both Linkedin and my resume (which may be outdated).

Extra Curricular Experience

Tech Fellow - Fundação Estudar

As a Tech Fellow, I contributed to the Fundação Estudar's community by helping students with their career paths, giving lectures and workshops, and helping the organization with their projects. I have also conducted tech talks with technology professionals to show the students the different career paths in the field and show discussions around specific topics: Amazon Student Recruiter, VTEX CTO, Itau technology superintendent, Tips for tech interviews preparation, etc.

TAIL - Co-Founder and President

TAIL (Technology and Artificial Intelligence League) is a non-profit Academic League held at UFPB that aims to support the students knowledge sharing and to teach new students from all courses (not only the ones in the Computer Science, Engineering and Data Science department). The organization is advised by the Phds and professors at UFPB: Telmo Filho, Thais Gaudencio and Yuri Malheiros (responsibles for the ARIA laboratory). The organization has more than 60 active members throughout Brazil and other countries.

Logic Circuits I - Boolean Algebra - assistant instructor

A freshman class at UFPB that has the highest failling rates. Throughout the course I gave lectures and helped students with exercises and projects. Our work was granted a teaching initiation award by the University after the student pass rate increased from 60% to 90%.

Projects Highlights

GANdido Portinari

Machine Learning class project at UFPB - 2020

Me and my colleagues used a CycleGAN to generate images that are similar to the paintings of Candido Portinari, a famous brazilian painter.

Bass tab generator

AI class project at UFPB - 2020

A project using LSTM networks to generate new bass tabs based on the Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Primus repertory.

Binary Bot

AI class project at UFPB - 2020

Consists in a Bot that trade options contracts based on previous data using a Time series approach in EUR/USD.

Medway Student Allocation

Project of Operations Research Class - 2020

Medway is a middle-sized (300 students) course at João Pessoa - PB. The problem here consists in allocating each student to one of the 15 advisors based on the time needed by the student and the estimated compatibility between each pair to let things balanced and not overload any advisor. The project was done using IBM CPLEX and some preprocessig libraries.

Helper Brasil Conta Comigo

The Brasil Conta Comigo is a program from the Brazilian Government to allocate students in med school final years into the public health sector to help with the COVID-19 Crisis. This project intuits to make it easier for these students to find their preferred places, filtering the data with the distance and the sector of work.

Learn more about me

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Here is a copy of my resume.