Izabela Borges

Data Scientist

iFood•  January 2020 - October 2022

Worked in developing a forecasting ML model based on period windows for the probability of cancellations via restaurants, decreasing the gross cancelled orders from 6,54% to 2,48% and increasing the reorder rate from 33% to 40%; Responsible for creating an API to simplify the restaurants catalog curator manual workflow and validate the quality of restaurant menus, decreasing the time and labor spent and increasing 4x the coverage of cases; Worked in a data enrichment project with multiple fronts focused on enriching dish related data that served as an enabler creating quality data for various ML models; Responsible for curating and developing a dish categorization service focused on mass market offers, increasing the conversion in mass market lists by 5,5%; Worked on improving the taxonomy of products to include live composition items, enriching the catalog and increasing the accuracy of the food graph which is used in dish recommendations; Structured a project focused on the accountability of fairness and transparency in our recommendation algorithms improving visibility of newer and smaller restaurants within the platform and increasing the number of monthly orders in 1,03%

Data Scientist

Hekima•  July 2019 - December 2019

Worked in developing a marketing mix modeling solution to forecast budget allocation in a more efficient way focusing on return of investment; Helped with development of an internal data analysis tool called Simplicidata that focused on simplifying the way a data scientist deals with data from the data storage step to the data results visualization step; Worked in the development of a data unification process for use in a customer registration workflow that counted with multiple registration input processes, creating a single-profile aggregation for use in both e-commerce and at-store purchases

Data Scientist Internship

Hekima•  May 2018 - July 2019

Worked in developing a dynamic pricing algorithm that helped raise profits by 16% on retail segment; Responsible for the implementation of a data visualization dashboard that showed the predicted values and the actual profits increase, powered by PowerBI

Software Engineer Internship

Base2 Tecnologia•  December 2017 - April 2018

Working remotely with teams from other subsidiaries; Implementing and reviewing flow charts, wireframes and prototypes; Developing web softwares using the Rails framework, HTML and CSS; Developing single-page sites using Jekyll (Ruby) and Pelican (Python); Developing web scraping scripts to collect social data

QA Engineer Intership

Base2 Tecnologia•  May 2016 - December 2017

Working remotely with teams from the US and New Zealand, and working locally with our team here in Brazil; Reviewing and understanding system requirements to develop test cases and test scenarios; Using the Selenium WebDriver framework on automated software tests; Developing test scripts in Python using unittest and nosetests, in Java using JUnit and maven, and in C# using NUnit and NuGet; Developing performance, load and stress tests using the Apache JMeter tool; Using test reporting frameworks such as Allure Report and ReportUnit for results presenting; Participating in a continuous integration process using devops techniques and tools such as CircleCI, Travis CI and Jenkins; Participating in a continuous deployment process using AWS S3 and Google Cloud with Docker; Manual testing for web based applications and mobile applications for both iOS and Android systems

Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte

Computer Science, BS•  August 2015 - June 2020

Acted as the Academic Events Representative for the Computer Science Student Union; Summer and Winter Bootcamps Co-founder/Organizer/Lecturer; Teaching Assistant for Algorithms and Language Theory; Women in IT PUCMinas Leader; ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest Team Member