Roberto R. Balbinotti

AI Solution Architect & Data Scientist

"Transforming Big Data, Time Series and Computer Vision into ROI and Operational Efficiency."

🧬 About Me

Senior Data Scientist and AI Solution Architect with over 20 years of professional experience at the intersection of process optimization, business logic, and high-performance predictive systems. Specialist in developing end-to-end pipelines that transcend the laboratory research environment to operate robustly and scalably in production environments (MLOps).

Unlike purely theoretical approaches, I master the complete data cycle: from massive ingestion of heterogeneous sources and server-side optimization to containerized deployment of complex neural networks, always focusing on eliminating analytical bottlenecks and delivering real financial return on investment.

🛠️ Skills Matrix (Stack 2026)

Category Key Technologies
AI & Computer Vision TensorFlow Keras YOLO OpenCV Scikit-Learn
Data Performance & Big Data Polars Julia Spark Hadoop SQL
Forecasting & Time Series Nixtla MLForecast Sktime LightGBM
DevOps, Cloud & MLOps MLflow Docker DVC AWS Linux

🏗️ Strategic Projects

1. Smart Supply Chain AI: Demand Forecasting Engine & Stochastic Data Generation

Integration of high-performance time series predictive modeling and columnar data engineering applied to supply chains.

  • Stack: Python Polars MLForecast MLflow Kaggle
  • Goal: Mitigate catastrophic inventory failures (stockouts) and optimize inventory turnover in complex supply chains.
  • Approach: Replacement of slow statistical approaches with modern pipelines using Polars and predictive modeling with LightGBM + MLForecast, incorporating high-frequency macroeconomic and climate exogenous variables.
  • Public Validation: Development and publication of a stochastic engine for generating complex synthetic data, adopted by the community for Big Data testing.
  • Result: Theoretical reduction in storage costs and optimization of the supply chain logistics pipeline.
  • Links:
    GitHub Kaggle Dataset

2. Personalized Medicine: Deep Learning Diagnosis with Ethical Rigor

Advanced pathology classification in medical images focusing on algorithm interpretability and explainability (XAI).

  • Stack: TensorFlow Keras OpenCV Docker
  • Goal: Develop clinical decision support systems with high diagnostic accuracy and complete regulatory transparency.
  • Approach: CUDA-accelerated custom CNNs and use of AI Explainability (SHAP and LIME) to map decision regions, removing the "black box" problem and meeting regulatory requirements.
  • Result: Validated accuracy above 90% in severe scenarios with complete auditability of decision-making.
  • Link:
    GitHub

3. Event Analytics & Management Dashboard: High-Performance Server-Side

Interactive business intelligence for operational pipeline monitoring and high-volume financial auditing.

  • Stack: Python Streamlit Plotly Linux
  • Goal: Centralize real-time operational financial KPIs to optimize conversion funnels and mitigate latent costs.
  • Approach: Modular microservices architecture with decoupled ETL and advanced in-memory caching strategies (@st.cache_data), reducing latency and RAM consumption.
  • Result: Month-over-Month executive view with immediate identification of transactional bottlenecks and early detection of billing anomalies.
  • Links:
    GitHub Streamlit App

📊 Community Contributions to Data Science & Open Source

  • Synthetic Grocery Supply Chain Dataset (Kaggle): I developed and publicly released a stochastic simulator based on real statistical distributions combined with public climate data. The project acts as a Digital Twin generator for simulating transactional data from corporate supply chain networks, facilitating testing and stress-testing of Big Data architectures without breaking legal privacy compliance.

📬 Let's talk?

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