Matheus Ferreira Drumond

Work Experience

Junior IT Technician

Grau Técnico Taguatinga

abr 2024–

  • Provided technical support for our employees, general eletronics maintenance and also guided students in our computer skills interactive courses.
  • Developed complex spreadsheets and software to help with management and logistics, as well as some customer-facing products like a resume builder webpage.

Game Translator

Gazeus Games

nov 2020–dez 2020

  • Worked from home and translated the mobile game Top Gun Legends from English to Brazilian Portuguese.

Education

UFRGS

B.S. Applied Mathematics

jun 2022–jun 2026 (est.)

  • Focused on data science and programming.
  • Scientific Initiation: Studied advanced graduate-level topics in Representation Theory (Algebra) under the guidance of Leonardo Duarte Silva, delivering weekly lectures on what I learned.
  • Strong background in Business and Economics from coursework completed in an Economics major before transitioning to Applied Mathematics (Economics degree not completed).

Projects

Tomato Wars: What Makes Critics and Audiences Disagree on Movies?

An exploration of the Rotten Tomatoes dataset with the goal of finding out critical factors that make audiences' and critics' scores diverge.

Skills

  • Data Science Technologies: Python (Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Jupyter Notebooks; basic knowledge of PyTorch); Excel (including pivot tables and Power Query); Power BI; SQL
  • General Programming: Git; Linux and terminal environments; SQL (SQLite, Postgres).
  • Web Development: HTML, JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS; Tailwind; Svelte; Django backends; Familiar with React.
  • Theory: Machine Learning; Statistical modeling (regression, hypothesis testing).
  • Soft Skills: Experienced in education, presentation, research, teaching and communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
  • Other Programming Languages and Tools: Neovim wizard; Beginner at Go, Kotlin and Rust.

Certifications

  • DataCamp: SQL Fundamentals
  • Yale (Coursera): Introduction to Machine Learning

Languages

  • English: Fluent
  • Brazilian Portuguese: Native
  • French: Basic
  • Spanish: Basic