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Education, experience and awards. The full academic record is on Lattes.
Contact Information
| Name | Fernando Maia da Mota |
| Professional Title | Data & AI Software Engineer | Applied AI, MLOps, Cloud Data Platforms | PhD student at UFMS |
| fernando.mota@ufms.br |
Professional Summary
PhD student at FACOM/UFMS working on text anonymization under the inference capabilities of large language models, and Senior Data & AI Software Engineer at LIA, building production AI systems for legal documents at the State Attorney’s Office of Mato Grosso do Sul (PGE-MS). 15+ years in industry building data platforms and applied AI systems, including technical lead of a data and AI team that grew from 3 to 12 people and delivered an analytics lakehouse, an enterprise LLM platform and production RAG applications.
Experience
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2026 - present Campo Grande, Brazil
Senior Data & AI Software Engineer (Applied AI)
LIA – Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial
- Public-sector innovation project that automates judicial processes at the State Attorney’s Office of Mato Grosso do Sul (PGE-MS), with a focus on healthcare-related cases.
- Design of solution and data architectures for production AI systems: document analysis, legal text automation and expert-calculation support.
- NLP and machine learning over large volumes of legal documents; AI-driven pipelines that automate repetitive workflows.
- Integration with existing government data systems, with attention to accuracy, auditability and governance.
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2022 - 2026 Data Science and AI Tech Lead
Plaenge Group
- Built and led the data team, from 3 to 12 people across data engineering, analytics engineering and applied AI; set technical standards and mentored engineers coming from economics and business analytics.
- Enterprise AI platform (LLM hub): designed a single internal API for LLM access, with authentication, auditing and guardrails by default, plus shared endpoints for embeddings and RAG. It serves a GenAI sales-development chat that handles 200–300 conversations a day and an internal expert-search tool.
- BIM analytics platform: modeled IFC building models as graphs and loaded them into a Bronze/Silver/Gold lakehouse covering 70+ active and 50+ completed projects (700+ models), giving the BIM team cross-project indicators of model quality and clash history. Proofs of concept: gnn_bim, graphrag_bim.
- CRM to lakehouse sync: incremental synchronization of Microsoft Dynamics (Dataverse) data into Delta tables, which moved analytics out of the CRM and cut Dataverse storage from about 750 GB to 200 GB.
- Schedule: a declarative ingestion framework on Spark and Delta Lake (Azure Synapse) that let junior engineers add sources by configuration; it ran about 20,000 ingestion jobs a month at peak.
- Led the migration of QlikView solutions and on-premises Power BI reports to a cloud lakehouse with Delta tables and a governed semantic layer in Power BI workspaces.
- Lakehouse on Azure Data Lake and Delta Lake, with Azure Synapse, Data Factory, Apache Spark, Airflow and DuckDB. Architecture work contributed to an estimated 25–35% reduction in analytics processing costs.
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2016 - 2022 Founder and Data Architect
Bov BI – Business Intelligence for Agribusiness
- Founded and ran an analytics consultancy for agribusiness, from requirements with business leaders to deployment.
- Agribusiness analytics platform: BI platform for a cattle producers association with 600+ producers and about 1,200 farms, with drill-down from executive KPIs to individual producers; it replaced manual reporting that took weeks and gave auditable metrics for negotiations with industry partners.
- Data warehouse design, ETL, OLAP cubes, reports and dashboards (Pentaho).
- ERP, web and mobile development (Python/Django, Node.js APIs, Ionic).
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2012 - 2015 Senior BI Analyst and Business Intelligence Instructor
IT4biz IT Solutions
- Instructor of the Pentaho suite; development of OLAP cubes, dashboards and ETL processes.
- Principal committer of open-source Pentaho community extensions: Kettle Web Integrator (web integration layer for Pentaho Data Integration), Saiku Chart Plus (extra charts for Saiku Analytics) and Pentaho CE Audit (auditing and monitoring for Pentaho Community Edition).
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2014 - 2015 Substitute Lecturer
Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS)
- Introduction to Digital Systems; Foundations of Object-Oriented Programming; Topics in Information Systems; Software Analysis and Design; Algorithms and Programming.
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2009 - 2011 Undergraduate Researcher and Project Assistant
Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS)
- Data webhouse that consolidated national INEP school census data and state education systems, with drill-down from state to student level and indicators such as age–grade distortion and IDEB inputs.
- Research in data warehousing, Linked Data and web development; analyst for UFMS distance-education and institutional-evaluation systems.
Education
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2024 - present Campo Grande, Brazil
PhD (in progress)
Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS)
Computer Science
- Research: text anonymization under the inference capabilities of large language models.
- Advisor: Prof. Edson Takashi Matsubara. Co-advisor: Prof. Jonathan de Andrade Silva.
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2013 - 2016 Campo Grande, Brazil
Professional MSc
Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS)
Applied Computing
- Thesis: Uma Abordagem de Análises OLAP e de Mineração de Dados para Suporte à Tomada de Decisão no Setor da Pecuária de Corte do Brasil.
- Advisor: Prof. Renato Porfirio Ishii. Co-advisor: Rodrigo da Costa Gomes.
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2007 - 2011 Coxim, Brazil
BSc
Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), Coxim campus
Information Systems
- Final project: Uma Estratégia para Publicação dos Dados da Base do CEB-INEP/MEC no Padrão Linked Open Data.
- Advisor: Prof. Karen Kiomi Nakazato.
Awards
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2011 Outstanding Student of the 2011 class, BSc in Information Systems (UFMS/CPCX)
Brazilian Computer Society (SBC)
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2010 Motion of Applause
Campus Council, UFMS Coxim campus
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2009 2nd place in the presentation of accepted papers, XXVII ENECOMP
National Congress of Computing Students (ENECOMP)
Skills
Applied AI and LLMs: RAG, embeddings, AI agents, LLM platforms and governance, GraphRAG, graph neural networks
Data engineering: Lakehouse (Bronze/Silver/Gold), Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Airflow, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, data warehousing, OLAP
Languages and tools: Python, SQL, Neo4j, Power BI, Pentaho, Docker
Cloud: Microsoft Azure, Azure AI Foundry, AWS
Languages
Portuguese : Native speaker
English : Full professional proficiency