Hello there! I’m Luís Otávio, Statistician and Data Scientist with an MSc in Demography from UFMG (Brazil), combining rigorous quantitative training with hands-on experience in financial analytics and research.
I work at the intersection of statistical modeling, machine learning, and business decision-making — currently at Banco Mercantil, where I build and monitor predictive models for credit products, design KPI dashboards, and automate data pipelines using Python, R, SQL, and Power BI.
My master’s dissertation investigates how different small-area population projection methods affect the allocation of Brazil’s main intergovernmental fiscal transfer (FPM) — work that sits at the boundary of computational demography and finance.
Core skills: predictive modeling · credit scoring · demographic analysis · A/B testing · data pipeline automation · dashboard development · web scraping · spatial data.
Thank you for visiting my portfolio!