Uthant Vicentin
Machine Learning Specialist, Institute of Intelligent Cities
Brazil
Machine Learning Engineer with 5+ years of software development experience and 4+ years designing, launching, and operating production ML and LLM systems at scale (75M users at Itaú Unibanco; 1.5M citizens in Curitiba). Technical lead for hybrid-cloud MLOps and LLMOps platforms covering LLM orchestration, agent development, MCP-based RAG, tracing, and evaluation. MSc in Computer Science (USP) with research on LLMs, two-time ICPC Brazilian finalist, and contributor to a programming outreach project for girls.
education
| 2026 | MSc in Computer Science, University of São Paulo (ICMC/USP) An Empirical Study of LLMs and Curriculum Alignment in Introductory Programming |
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| 2021 | Bachelor of Computer Science, Federal University of Rondônia Soil classification using signal processing and artificial neural networks: CAES |
experience
| Apr 2024 – Present | Machine Learning Specialist, Institute of Intelligent Cities |
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| Sep 2023 – Apr 2024 | Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Itaú Unibanco |
| Jan 2023 – Nov 2023 | Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Institute of Intelligent Cities |
| Oct 2021 – Feb 2023 | Data Scientist, UzziPay |
| Apr 2021 – Oct 2021 | Backend Developer, UzziPay |
skills
| Languages | Python (5+ years); C/C++, C#, R, Java (2 years) |
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| Technologies | LLM orchestration & agentic workflows (LangChain), Model Context Protocol (MCP), RAG, LLM evaluation (Ragas, Langfuse), Kubeflow, AWS SageMaker, PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, ConvNeXt, BERTimbau, LayoutLM, YOLO, PaddleOCR, Tesseract-OCR, Git, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Unix/Bash, FastAPI, Flask, Weaviate, OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry, Grafana |
awards
| 2021 | Nominated for the 18th Brazilian Scientific and Technological Initiation Award |
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| 2018, 2020 | Brazilian Finals – Maratona de Programação – International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) |