Location: Florianopolis, Brazil (or somewhere in the 🌎)
GitHub: gabrielziegler3
LinkedIn: gabrielziegler


Senior Software & Machine Learning Engineer and Double Master in Data Science from the Technical University of Eindhoven and the University of Aalto.


Experiences

Senior AI Software Engineer | Trebu Logo Trebu

June 2025 - November 2025 - Florianópolis, Brazil (Remote)

Building agentic systems to automate the logistics industry in Mexico. I wore many hats, from backend, frontend, and infra, to building agents.

AWS Python Django React Docker LangGraph LangChain Redis PostgreSQL

Consulting Software and Machine Learning Engineer | Ziegler Logo Ziegler Software & AI Solutions

January 2025 - Present - Remote

Building software and AI solution for clients.

Python AWS FastAPI LLMs RAG Faiss Vector DB Testing OCR PDF parsing Unit tests CI CD

Senior Software Engineer | Datia Logo Datia

February 2024 - November 2024 - Stockholm, Sweden (Remote)

At Datia, I contributed across multiple domains, such as data, backend, and frontend development to enhance the product experience. Key achievements include:

  • Developing an LLM-powered system capable of extracting key performance indicators (KPIs) from documents with high accuracy, streamlining data extraction processes.
  • Designing and implementing an internal dashboard for sustainability data visualization, enabling more informed decision-making.
  • Enhancing the product's backend and frontend by fixing critical bugs and delivering impactful features using Node.js and React.

Python AWS LLMs Testing OCR PDF parsing

Python Engineer | Turing Logo Turing.com

August 2022 - February 2024 - California, USA (Remote)

Python developer for one of the biggest AI research companies.

Python AWS LLMs Testing Pytorch

Machine Learning Engineer | Itaú Logo Itaú Unibanco

March 2021 - August 2022 - São Paulo, Brazil (Remote)

ML Engineer with experience in designing, implementing, deploying, and monitoring speech ML systems. Worked with Data Science and MLOps teams to deliver data-intensive systems.

  • Improved speaker verification model by ~20% and speaker diarization model by ~30% on noisy datasets
  • Deployed APIs and end-to-end batch-processing Speech Recognition System
  • Experienced in using AWS infrastructure, including SQS, SNS, S3, Sagemaker, ECS Fargate, ECR, EFS, Lambda, and API Gateway

API Gateway IAM KMS ECS EFS CodeBuild CodePipeline CloudWatch Fargate Lambda Sagemaker SQS SNS S3 Python Pytorch Hugging Face Transformers Docker Flask Linux

Data Scientist | Banco do Brasil Logo Banco do Brasil

March 2020 - September 2020 - Brasília (Remote)

Responsible for ETL pipelines, EDA, Insights Reports and client-focused Machine Learning Models for Classification, Regression, and Clustering.

  • Improved the credit limit model by 10 percentage points in F1-Score.

Python SQL H2O AutoML SAS IBM DB2

Data Scientist | Vert Logo Vert

April 2019 - July 2019 - Brasília, Brazil

Responsible for creating a dashboard in SAS Viya with data from national transport traffic.

SAS Viya SQL Python

Facebook Logo Facebook F8 Hackathon Finalists 2019

April 2019 - April 2019 - San Jose, California

Selected as Top 8 Finalist out of 55 teams in the annual Facebook F8 Hackathon. Our team pitched to Mark Zuckerberg personally being primarily responsible for using Deep Learning models for text summarization and translation.

Machine Learning Researcher & Developer (NLP) | AI Lab Logo AI Lab

March 2018 - April 2019 - Brasilia, Brazil

Responsible for EDA, ETL and development of the multiclass and multilabel (over 1000s of classes) ML model for document classification for the supreme court in the biggest AI project in the Brazilian Judiciary.

  • Model performance F1 score > 80%, performing way above the human performance evaluated for the same task.

Python Linux RabbitMQ PostgreSQL XGBoost SpaCy NLTK Docker Git


Education

MSc Data Science | Aalto University Logo Aalto University

September 2022 - July 2024 - Helsinki, Finland

Scholar in the EIT Digital double master's degree in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence.

MSc Data Science | Eindhoven University of Technology Logo Eindhoven University of Technology

September 2022 - July 2024 - Eindhoven, Netherlands

Scholar in the EIT Digital double master's degree in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence.

Summer School | Technische Universitët München Logo Technische Universitët München

July 2023 - August 2023 - Munich, Germany

Collaborated with Siemens on creating EmissionAware: a new software business to ease access to carbon-emission within the supply chain for forecasting and reducing Scope 3 emissions.

Bachelor of Software Engineering (4.13/5.0) | University of Brasília Logo University of Brasília

August 2015 - May 2021 - Brasília, Brazil

Thesis: Context-Dependent Probabilistic Prior Information for MRI Reconstruction

Exchange Student | Rangitoto College Logo Rangitoto College

January 2014 - December 2014 - Auckland, New Zealand


Publications & Awards

Dropping Incomplete Records is (not so) Straightforward
IDA 2023: Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XXI
Document classification using a Bi-LSTM to unclog Brazil's Supreme Court
NeurIPS 2018 Workshop on Machine Learning for Developing World (ML4D)

Languages

Portuguese Native
English Fluent - C1 TOEFL IBT 102
Spanish Limited working proficiency