Senior Data & AI Engineer — I take systems from raw data to ML/LLM in production:
pipelines, RAG, agents, evals, and the boring reliable plumbing included.
🌎 Porto Alegre, Brazil · 🟢 Open to remote Data & AI roles (worldwide) · 📩 email.rodrigopalma@gmail.com
- 🏛️ Modernized the data stack of a public institution managing a R$100M+ budget — resilience and reliability for systems thousands of people depend on.
- 💰 Cut ~R$200k/year in operating costs with reproducible ELT pipelines.
- 📊 Built AI + NLP analytics products informing decisions for 2,000+ staff at an institution that delivered 2.65M+ legal-aid services in 2025.
- 🛡️ Shipped LLMs / RAG to production with guardrails and offline evals — not demos.
- 🏆 Co-designed an award-winning analytics product that fairly benchmarks workload across units of a public institution — 2nd place at a national public-sector innovation congress (2026).
💡 Public portfolio started Jun/2026. 8+ years building data/ML systems in production; the institutional systems above are internal (public sector, under NDA) and can't be open-sourced — these repos are where I build in the open.
| Project | What it is | Domain |
|---|---|---|
| QuantLens | Production-grade local-LLM quant analyst for the B3 stock market — RAG + guardrails + offline evals in CI, with a measured benchmark table. | GenAI / AI Eng |
| anchora | Offline RAG over Brazilian public-law documents — cited answers, domain-grounded. | GenAI / Retrieval |
| market-elt | Reproducible DuckDB + dbt ELT with data-quality tests — end to end, zero infra. | Data Eng |
Psychologist → full-stack founder → senior data/AI engineer. MSc in Big Data & Business Intelligence. I read product, behavior and data at the same time — a rare combination in an engineer.
Building local-first AI — RAG, agents and LoRA fine-tuning on local models (Ollama) — and reproducible data platforms, with engineering rigor (CI, tests, evals, measured results).
Azure Data Scientist Associate (DP-100) · Fabric Analytics Engineer (DP-600) · Power BI Data Analyst (PL-300) · Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)
Open to remote opportunities — let's talk on LinkedIn.