Erlon Lacerda erlonL

Hi, I'm Erlon Avelino

Bachelor's degree in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence (UFPB) and very interested in Data & AI systems.

Data Analyst I @ Zoox Smart Data
- Building ETL pipelines, APIs, big data, models
- Continuously improving on data: modeling, pipelines, governance, observability and performance
- Integrating new data sources daily
Building data and AI systems:
- LLM solutions across chatbots, document information extraction, automated analytical workflows
- Backend experience across different stacks including FastAPI, Flask, Express, NextJS
- Built multiple data collections from scratch through scraping, unstructured data and modelling
Researching
- Machine Learning | LLMs | NLP | Data Mining
- Co-authoring: CO₂ clustering and geospatial analysis, mental health and GPT usage among college students.
- Author of Além das Palavras: Detectando Técnicas Persuasivas em Notícias e Artigos de Opinião da Língua Portuguesa com BERT-Tiny

🌐 erlonL.github.io: personal page
🍃 Breez🥉 @ NASA: my 3rd place NASA Space Apps project focused on air quality and climate intelligence using NASA's TEMPO realtime data
⚖️ equidar🥉 @ Devs de Impacto: podium at the Devs de Impacto hackathon in which we investigated infrastructure variables on the school students performance and used AI to help public administrators identify school needs on their cities.
📚 saeb: machine learning class final project in which we analyze school students performance using social variables from SAEB and apply machine learning algorithms to identify the expected student performance on the test reaching 90% accuracy on the Decision Trees model.
📸 photo-collection: early-stage demonstration of a Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) project. Starting from the product.
📊 dataviz: my data visualization class project/presentations compressed onto a website.
🌈 SessaodaTarde: data analysis project regarding a classic brazilian movie tv session called "Sessão da Tarde" (afternoon movie session).
🚍 Cadê o Ônibus?: why is a city public bus tool full of ads? This is a prototype solution for a "is my bus close?" problem.