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Vinicius

Hey, I'm Vinicius Mello. I lead Solutions Engineering for Latin America at Openlayer, where I help enterprises ship AI they can actually trust. Before that, I was Chief Data & AI Officer at Hurb, building and leading ML teams from the ground up.

I hold a degree in Electronics and Computer Engineering from UFRJ and spent 5+ years doing applied ML research with the Brazilian Navy on passive sonar systems. I'm from Brazil, and I work across the full stack, from distributed training and cloud infrastructure to product strategy and technical sales.

Off-screen, I'm a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, an avid reader, and someone who genuinely enjoys cooking new recipes. I love open source and side projects, but I also very much enjoy the offline world and all the beauty it has to offer.

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Vinícius Mello is a Brazilian engineer and the Head of Solutions Engineering for Latin America at Openlayer, where he partners with enterprise teams to deploy AI they can actually trust—bridging evaluation and governance with production engineering. Before Openlayer, he was Chief Data & AI Officer at Hurb, where he built and led machine learning teams from the ground up. He holds a degree in Electronics and Computer Engineering from UFRJ and spent 5+ years conducting applied machine learning research with the Brazilian Navy on passive sonar systems. His work spans AI infrastructure and MLOps, cloud platforms and distributed systems, and the full product lifecycle—from strategy to technical sales.

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Career

Openlayer

1 yr 5 mos

Head of Solutions Engineering, LatAm

Mar 2025 – Present • 11 mos

San Francisco, CA

Technical Advisor

Sep 2024 – Mar 2025 • 6 mos

San Francisco, CA

Freelance

1 yr 2 mos

AI Consultant

Dec 2024 – Present • 1 yr 2 mos

Remote

Hurb

4 yrs 7 mos

Chief Data & Artificial Intelligence Officer

Jan 2024 – Feb 2025 • 1 yr 1 mos

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Staff Data Engineer

Jun 2023 – Jan 2024 • 7 mos

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Senior Data Engineer

Jan 2022 – Jun 2023 • 1 yr 5 mos

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Data Engineer

Jul 2020 – Jan 2022 • 1 yr 6 mos

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Researcher

Jun 2017 – Mar 2023 • 5 yrs 9 mos

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Intuitive Care

2 yrs 5 mos

Data Engineer

Jan 2018 – Jun 2020 • 2 yrs 5 mos

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Informatics Lab Internship

Mar 2017 – Jun 2017 • 3 mos

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil