
Hugo De Oliveira
Senior Data Scientist & AI Engineer | PhD
Salary / Daily rate
Hamburg, Germany
Freelance
Remote only
Skills
Languages
Work experience
Freelance Data Scientist
ToptalFreelance
Jul 2021 - Present
5 years 4 months
Remote
AI Engineer
Stealth ProjectFreelance
Jan 2026 - Present
10 months
Remote
• Developed and productionized a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) platform enabling users to search, analyze, and extract insights from decisions issued by the French drug reimbursement commission. • Designed and implemented document ingestion pipelines, semantic search capabilities, and LLM-powered retrieval and summarization workflows to deliver accurate, context-aware answers from complex reports and transcriptions. • Deployed the solution into production and supported its operational adoption.
Analytics Engineer
Komatsu MiningFreelance
Nov 2023 - Apr 2026
2 years 6 months
Remote
• Assisted the Surface Factory Analytics team in improving mining machine reporting practices for internal and external customers. • Worked with product engineers, infrastructure engineers, data scientists and business intelligence developers to create dashboards to display indicators for surface mining assets (such as shovels, loaders and trucks). • Developed dash templates and reusable functions and components to accelerate the process of dashboard developments. • Helped setting up dbt (data build tool) as a framework for data models definition and documentation. • Created a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture to allow internal users to interact with the team knowledge data, including analytics documentation, database metadata, acronyms. • Created an agentic workflow to allow a database query from a technical user's question in natural language. • Developed a Python-based algorithm to infer daily visibility impairment from NOAA weather data using proxy signals, producing interpretable classifications and severity scoring for time-series analytics.
Consulting Data Scientist
OverlordFreelance
Jan 2024 - Dec 2025
2 years
Remote
• Assisted the company in formalizing and automating investment performance evaluation for their vehicle management platform. • Created a python script calculating vehicle and investor performance indicators (including capital gain, internal rate of return, cash-on-cash, net asset value…), and deployed the python script via a Flask app, creating endpoints to interact with the platform. • Worked on various proofs of concept involving AI, including an app to help investors refining their investment proposals.
Synthesis
Aug 2021 - Oct 2023
2 years 3 months
Senior Data Scientist
Jan 2022 - Oct 2023
1 year 10 months
• Provided metrics to the different departments within the company (Product, Operations, Marketing, Finance). • Built and maintained company analytics pipeline, from data engineering to reporting. • Used Python to create ETL scripts for different data sources, dbt for data modeling, Apache Airflow for orchestration, Redshift for data warehousing, Google Sheets, and Mode for dashboards and reporting. • Built a Slack notification system to send daily and weekly notifications, informing about acquisition and product metrics. • Created a heuristic to automatically propose planning of new classes to open every month based on waitlisted student time preferences and teacher availabilities. • Proposed a Python script to optimize game infrastructure scaling based on scheduled sessions to reduce the number of allocated servers not in operation while ensuring capacity for all sessions. • Developed a proof of concept (POC) for student progress metrics targeted for parents, including data on interactions with teammates from different locations, game results, and session participation. • Created a financial dashboard for company executives, including company data and financial reports extracted from the QuickBooks API via a Python script (revenue, expenses, gross margins, cash available, burn, and runway). • Assisted in the transition to a flat rate system for teacher payment, automating the process of hour tracking, thus saving time for teachers and HR while controlling company costs. • Created and maintained a budget for a company product as a bi-weekly P&L sheet, reviewed by the team every month to control expenses.
Data Scientist
Aug 2021 - Jan 2022
6 months
HEVA
Jan 2017 - Dec 2020
4 years
Région de Lyon, France
Data Scientist
Jan 2017 - Dec 2020
4 years
Région de Lyon, France
• Conducting health data analysis studies for public institutions, pharmaceutical and medical device companies. • Collaborative work with data scientists, data engineers, developers, UI/UX designers, and medical experts. • Participation in research and development projects for innovative data analysis and visualization solutions.
Intern
Apr 2017 - Jul 2017
4 months
Région de Lyon, France
• Benchmark of machine learning algorithms for classification using French national hospital data. • Application of global optimization algorithms to solve hyperparameter tuning problem.
Research Intern
Polytechnique Montréal
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
3 months
Région de Montréal, Canada
• Data analysis to improve workload distribution for Home Care Regional Services of Montreal Island. • Creation of a database and design of a dashboard for caregivers.
Education
École des Mines de Saint-Étienne
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
2017 - 2020
3 years 4 months
École des Mines de Saint-Étienne
Master of Science in Engineering
2014 - 2017
4 years
Lycée Chaptal
Higher School Preparatory Classes
2012 - 2014
3 years
Lycée Gustave Eiffel (Gagny)
High School degree
2009 - 2012
4 years