About me
My name is Telmo Pessoa Pires, and I’m a Machine Learning and Software Engineer. I build ML systems from research to production, specializing in NLP, distributed systems, and ML infrastructure.
I am interested in deep tech, cybersecurity, and in particular in using Machine Learning (not just AI 😉) to solve real world problems - not just the next app.
I have worked at both large tech companies and early-stage startups. Most recently, I was Founding Staff Engineer and Head of ML at Equall, where I built the company’s AI-powered legal due-diligence platform. Before that, I spent over five years between Apple and Google Research, where I worked on multilingual models, more inference-efficient Transformers, among other topics.
In my spare time I enjoy reading, working out, and getting computers to do stuff they weren’t intended to.
I’m open to consulting opportunities and interesting projects.
Projects I’ve worked on:
- LLM training and fine-tuning
- Machine Translation and multilingual NLP
- Document processing and information extraction
- RAG systems and agentic workflows
- 3D reconstruction and depth estimation
- Data scraping, cleaning, and data pipeline development
- Distributed training infrastructure optimization
- Movement/trajectory analysis
- Outlier detection and fraud detection systems
- Medical coding and healthcare NLP
- Legal contract analysis
What I can do for your business:
- Build Machine Learning systems from research to deployment
- Prototype building
- Mathematical and statistical modeling
- Data architecture and ML pipelines
- Technical leadership and team building
- NLP and multilingual systems