Thársis Souza is a Brazilian-American computer scientist, author, and product leader specializing in AI-driven products. He has held Technology Product leadership roles at some of Wall Street’s largest hedge funds (Citadel, Two Sigma), FinTechs (Axioma, BM&FBovespa) as well as early-stage Silicon Valley technology startups (Yewno Inc.).
He is a former Lecturer in Columbia University’s M.Sc. in Applied Analytics program, creator of podcastfy.ai, and co-author of the O’Reilly book Large Language Models - The Hard Parts: Open Source AI Solutions for Common Pitfalls.
Thársis holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCL, University of London, following an M.Phil. and M.Sc. in Computer Science and a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering.
open to advisory, research and entrepreneurship-related roles; not looking for full-time operating roles
