Henrique Brandão

Brasília-DF, Brazil · hbrandao@pm.me · brandao.t.henrique@gmail.com

Versatile technology professional with many years of experience in backend development, applied AI, agile leadership, and strategic software delivery. Currently working at Banco do Brasil, where I apply deep technical expertise with a passion for innovation, data, and team development. Master’s in AI, Big Data MBA, Business Intelligence Specialization and a degree in Mathematics. I blend academic rigor and real-world delivery, with leadership and hands on experience encompassing software engineering, ML modeling, cloud-native development, and mentorship of agile squads. Writes on Hacker Noon.

Experience

Lead Developer

Banco do Brasil

Collaborating with business partners to translate complex business requirements into effective data-driven technical solutions

  • Delivering AI models and cloud applications that support critical data-driven services
  • Worked on a fraud detection and mitigation AI pipeline that avoided millions in losses in the first month alone
  • Created a Document Understanding Platform capable of processing hundreds of documents per minute, with a user's playground interface, using Python, FastAPI, OCR and LLMs
  • Strong track record in internal performance metrics
  • Complete overhaul of financial software, including thousands of lines of tests, and achieving top 90% in quality measures
  • Academic contributor with research aligned to practical AI/ML implementations
  • Played a key role in recruiting, growing and evaluating engineering talent
  • Managed and mentored agile teams while contributing to backend and ML solutions

October, 2016 - Present

Teacher

Private schools

Mathematics and English (ESL) teacher on private schools in Recife-PE.

July, 2015 - April, 2016

Personal projects

C.Q.D. Work in progress

www.cqd.dev.br

Organization to gather and showcase projects.

Proventos B3: Ativos no seu bolso! Deactivated

www.proventosb3.com.br

Web app for fundamentalist information lookup regarding stocks and REITs in Brazil's Stock Exchange (B3).

August, 2020

Aqui na quadra, colaborativo Deactivated

www.aquinaquadra.com.br

Index and search colaborative tool for customers and shopowners to help increase sales amidst COVID-19 social distancing and lockdown periods. It's scope is the Plano Piloto region of Brasília-DF, Brazil.

July, 2020

Education

Masters in Computer Science

Universidade de Brasília - UnB

Researching signal processing and deep learning regarding voice.

June 2022 - December 2024

Busniness Intelligence Specialization

Faculdade UniBF
September 2021

MBA in Big Data

Faculdade UniBF
September 2021

Mathematics

Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE)

Research and teaching scholarship (CAPES) having published papers, focusing on Combinatorial Analysis and Graph Theory.

February 2009 - September 2014

Skills

  • Mathematics
  • Statistics
  • Python
  • Linux
  • Docker
  • Data Science
  • Machine Learnig
  • Deep Learning
  • Agile Methodology

Courses

  • Deep Learning Specialization (5/5)

    Coursera (deeplearning.ai) - July, 2020

    Certificate and grades

  • Applied Data Science with Python Specialization (5/5)

    Coursera (University of Michigan) - September, 2019

    Certificate and grades

  • Hadoop Platform and Application Framework

    Coursera (University of California San Diego) - August, 2018

    Certificate

Languages

  • English · Fluent (Bulats - C2, February, 2019)

Awards & Recognition

  • Global Finance 2024 award · Category: Innovators
  • eFinance Awards 2018 · Category: Legal Software Application
  • Approval of economic plan agreements by the Supreme Court (Supremo Tribunal Federal - STF) · ADPF 165