Felipe Lodur

Data Science Manager at Brex

Building AI/ML systems for fraud, credit, and product

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Felipe Lodur

I lead Machine Learning at Brex, owning ML across the company. With over seven years of experience spanning academic research, applied AI, and large-scale fintech, I've built and led ML organizations across fraud, credit, product, and internal platforms — shipping models that drive real impact.

Speaking & Consulting

Felipe Lodur speaking at a conference

I speak and consult on ML strategy, fraud and credit systems, building AI teams, and shipping models at scale. Previously consulted for DeepLearning.AI on their Generative AI with LLMs course, reaching 40,000+ students in its launch week. I also advise startups on AI strategy and implementation.

Experience

Brex
Brex2023 - Present

Data Science Manager

Leading ML across the company — fraud prevention, credit decisioning, and AI-powered product features. Drove fraud to all-time lows while improving customer experience.


Nubank
Nubank2022 - 2023

Data Science Manager

Led Financial Crimes Data Science, managing Data Scientists and ML Engineers. Scaled ML-driven AML decisioning at one of the world's largest digital banks.


Minds Digital
Minds Digital2019 - 2022

Head of Artificial Intelligence

Took ML from prototype to revenue — built a Voice Biometry platform combining Deep Learning, search, and fraud detection. Created and led the team, preventing over R$2.5M/year in fraud.


Itau Unibanco
Itau Unibanco2018 - 2019

Data Scientist

Computer Vision and Image Processing on the Data Science team. Created a CV course for data scientists, published research with ITA, and earned a double promotion.

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology2018 - 2021

M.S. Computer Science — Machine Learning


Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica (ITA)
Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica (ITA)2018

Specialization in Data Science


PUC Minas
PUC Minas2014 - 2017

B.S. Computer Science


Exchange programs: Peking University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology