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About Miguel Marinho
Miguel Marinho, also known professionally as Miguel Ferreira da Silva, is a Senior AI Engineer and Data Scientist based in Lisbon, Portugal. He works on production AI systems, large language model applications, retrieval-augmented generation, AI agents, automation, and applied data science.
Miguel Marinho quick facts
- Primary name
- Miguel Marinho
- Formal name
- Miguel Ferreira da Silva
- Role
- Senior AI Engineer & Data Scientist
- Location
- Lisbon, Portugal
- Current employer
- Nokia
- Website
- mmarinhofs.com
Technical focus
Miguel builds systems at the intersection of AI engineering, data science, and data engineering. His strongest professional signals are production GenAI systems, Azure Databricks, LLMOps, RAG, Text-to-SQL, live SQL execution, structured report generation, and enterprise data products.
Career at Nokia
Miguel joined Nokia in 2022 through the Data Science rotational graduate programme, working across advanced analytics, process mining, data semantics, and financial reporting automation. As a Data Scientist and Data Engineer from 2023, he built supply-chain data business objects, KPI milestones for executive dashboards, and machine learning models for on-time delivery prediction.
Since 2024 he has been a Senior AI Engineer and technical lead of a production-grade agentic GenAI assistant on Azure Databricks. The system combines document-grounded Q&A with citations, a Text-to-SQL agent that answers plain-English questions against 50+ tables and 3,500+ columns of live enterprise data, and a natural-language report generator — governed end to end with Unity Catalog, MLflow, and Azure DevOps CI/CD.
Education
M.Sc. Business Analytics — Specialisation in Data Science
Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics · 2021 – 2023 · GPA 17/20, thesis graded 19/20
B.Sc. Economics & Data Analytics
Nova School of Business and Economics · 2017 – 2021
European Baccalaureate — Multilingual education (Portuguese, English, French)
European School of Luxembourg I · Graduated 2017
Certifications
- Databricks Certified Generative AI Engineer Associate
- Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate
- DP-100: Azure Data Scientist Associate
- AZ-900: Azure Fundamentals
- Celonis — 8 Certifications (Process Mining & Data Integration)
- DeepLearning.AI: Generative AI with LLMs, Fine-tuning LLMs
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Miguel Marinho?
- Miguel Marinho (formal name Miguel Ferreira da Silva) is a Senior AI Engineer and Data Scientist at Nokia, based in Lisbon, Portugal. He builds production AI systems on Azure Databricks — AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation, Text-to-SQL, and LLMOps — and publishes his work at mmarinhofs.com. He is not the Brazilian writer Jorge Miguel Marinho, nor the actor or handball player who share the name.
- What does Miguel Marinho do at Nokia?
- Miguel is the technical lead of a production-grade agentic GenAI assistant on Azure Databricks. It combines document-grounded Q&A with citations, a Text-to-SQL agent that answers plain-English business questions against 50+ tables and 3,500+ columns of live data, and a natural-language report generator — all governed through Unity Catalog, MLflow, and Azure DevOps CI/CD.
- What is Miguel Marinho's educational background?
- Miguel holds an M.Sc. in Business Analytics with a Data Science specialisation from Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics (thesis graded 19/20) and a B.Sc. in Economics & Data Analytics from Nova School of Business and Economics. He completed the European Baccalaureate at the European School of Luxembourg I, studying in Portuguese, English, and French.
- What projects is Miguel Marinho known for?
- Beyond his Nokia work, Miguel built KAIROS, an AI surf oracle for the Lisbon coast (surfkairos.vercel.app); California, a self-hosted Jarvis-style home AI agent; this portfolio's AI assistant; and MAR-MELA-CNN, his master's thesis ensemble for melanoma classification that reached 93% AUC.
- How can I contact Miguel Marinho?
- Through mmarinhofs.com, by email at miguel.marinho.silva@outlook.com, on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/mmarinhofs, or on GitHub at github.com/404MiguelMarinhoNotFound.