Manuel Costa Reis
Verified Expert in Engineering
Statistics Developer
Manuel is an economist turned software developer with a focus on combining research and statistical understanding of data while producing good, clean, and efficient code. He has worked in diverse areas such as economic research, recommendation systems, and natural language processing with personal projects that have directly impacted the lives of thousands of people and helped guide large scale investments by financial institutions.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Ruby, Doom Emacs, Git, JavaScript, Python, Jupyter, MacOS
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on was a recommendation system for job seekers that produced real results and had an impact on peoples lives.
Work Experience
Data Scientist
Casafari
- Developed a natural language model using Keras that extracted features from real estate listings.
- Prepared Python packages for deploying several data science models.
- Reviewed and refactored work from other data scientists focusing on code quality and model efficiency.
Data Developer
Landing.jobs
- Spearheaded the creation of the recommendation system for candidates on the platform.
- Created a system for streaming user information as they used the website to our databases.
- Implemented an intelligent sorting system for jobs using employee needs for recruitment and the candidate profiles.
- Implement several landing pages from the main website to adjacent events.
- Revamped the chat on the platform using WebSockets.
Communications and Marketing
Portuguese Economic Journal
- Developed a marketing and communications strategy that helped improve the reach of the journal and improve important metrics such as the impact factor.
- Managed the 4,000+ community of researchers by creating the website for the Journal, a newsletter, and video interviews with important Portuguese economists.
- Implemented processes and tools for future journal collaborators that are being used to this day.
Economist
Macrometria
- Created in-depth research reports on the Portuguese healthcare sector, credit markets, and external economy.
- Managed a weekly economic report summarizing main events and trends.
- Revamped the website and communications platform for the company.
Experience
Predicting Real Estate prices after Covid-19
https://github.com/manuelfcreis/research/tree/master/home_pricesDigging through several sources of data and using an ARMA model I created a simple model of real estate prices in Portugal that predicted a 15% drop in prices this year.
Personal Website
https://github.com/manuelfcreis/necas.devEducation
Master of Science Degree in Economics and Financial Markets
Nova School of Business and Economics - Lisboa, Portugal
Bachelor's Degree in Economics
Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics - Lisboa, Portugal
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy, Keras
Tools
Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Audition, Jupyter, Git, Microsoft Excel, STATA
Frameworks
Ruby on Rails (RoR), Flask, Doom Emacs
Languages
Python, Ruby, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
Paradigms
Agile Software Development, Data Science
Storage
PostgreSQL, MySQL
Platforms
MacOS, Adobe Suite
Other
Data Reporting, Data Analytics, Data Analysis, Statistics, Machine Learning
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