Felipe Campos Penha

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DISC Type : Dc

Senior AI Engineer at Cargill

San Diego, California, United States

Overview

Felipe is a Senior AI Engineer at Cargill with a PhD in Astroparticle Physics from Universidade Estadual de Campinas. He specializes in applying AI and GenAI to diverse business domains like supply chain, law, and food quality. Colleagues describe him as intelligent, diligent, and thoughtful.

Originally from Brazil and now based in San Diego, Felipe is active in the local Brazilian academic community. He creates data science content on YouTube and Twitch, sharing his live coding sessions and projects to help himself and others learn.

Unique fact: He is passionate about sharing his experience transitioning from academia to the tech industry to help guide other researchers.

Personality Overview

Objective Thinker

Demanding

Features Driven

They put a lot of effort into ensuring personal success.  They respond better to strong and respectful interactions. They like to stay in control of the negotiation or defining of the terms.

Topics They Care About

Applied Generative AI
Develops and deploys GenAI products at Cargill in diverse areas such as law, fraud prevention, and commercial contracts, focusing on tangible business impact.
Academia to Industry
He gives talks about his journey from a Physics PhD to a data scientist in the corporate world, sharing strategies for others making a similar transition.
MLOps & Live Coding
He runs a YouTube and Twitch channel where he live-codes MLOps projects, believing that showing mistakes and vocalizing thoughts is a powerful learning tool.

Media Appearances

Felipe has no verified media appearances

Work History

1-2025
Senior AI Engineer at Cargill
8-2022 - 12-2024
Lead Data Scientist at Cargill
4-2021 - 7-2022
Senior Data Scientist at Cargill
11-2020 - 1-2021
Senior Data Scientist at Upshop
4-2019 - 1-2020
Lead Data Scientist at Neoway Business Solutions

Education

2012 - 2016
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from Universidade Estadual de Campinas
2014 - 2015
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - partially from University of Delaware

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Insights For Selling To Felipe

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Get to the point quickly instead of spending time doing small talk
  • Use phrases like ‘it’s your decision’, ‘strategic impact’ etc.
  • Objectively showcase the impact that your product creates

DONT's

  • Avoid being a storyteller and don’t try to oversell
  • Don’t be in a rush to invite them for a social meet and greet
  • Don’t focus on process and rules, give the impression of being a ‘gets it done’ person

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Felipe is

  • Conviction around the impact matters the most to them, followed by a sense of achievement and ROI.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Felipe

  • If they decide not to use your product, they will say no clearly.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Felipe move?

  • If convinced, they can reach decisions quite fast.
  • Can Felipe take some risk or not?

  • They do not shy away from taking risks, but can be quite binary about them.

You And Felipe

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