Yuri Y. Vieira Sugano
Systems engineer focused on web and backend development — APIs, real-time platforms, data. Neuroscientist by training.
We build technology with partners: a website they can edit themselves, the server that keeps it online, and the numbers that show how it's doing — working toward infrastructure tailored to each use case, scaling together.
Quantitative systems and intelligence for financial markets.
Senior Data Scientist — Propz2023–2024
Retail intelligence and business analytics.
Neuroscience data acquisition, processing and analysis in the Mason Lab — HIPAA-grade human-subjects data, instrumentation that led to a patent; teaching and science communication.
Earlier: Statistics Tutor, U. of Chicago (2019–2020); Lab Manager, U. of Chicago (2015–2017); Research Assistant, Instituto Butantan — FAPESP scholar (2012–2013).
Education
B.A. Neuroscience, University of Chicago, 2018–2022 — GPA 3.7/4.0.
Skills
Languages: Rust, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, R, Scala, SQL.
Backend & APIs: Axum, Tokio, Node; REST, WebSocket, OpenAPI/Swagger; JWT & API-key auth; SQLite/LiteFS, multi-tenant.
Web & Infra: SvelteKit; Docker, Terraform, Git, Jenkins, Azure; AWS (S3, EC2, EMR, Fargate, QuickSight), GCP.
Data & ML: Apache Spark, Delta Lake, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, spaCy, UMAP, DBSCAN, OpenCV.
Analysis: statistics, experiment design, A/B testing, NLP, data visualization, dashboards.
Each system is built with a partner on shared infrastructure; partners own their data — privacy and security by default.
Systems · with partners
artelonga ·
Retro Umarizal,
Quilombo Araucária —
co: each partner's site, board and wiki in one place, stored as plain text files the partner owns and can take anywhere; real-time sync, one isolated database per partner; partners launch as subdomains and graduate to their own domains
rfq · Hedix (prediction-market exchange) — market-making intelligence as an API: low-latency single-call firm quotes, idempotent by client order id, API-key auth, OpenAPI/Swagger
Neuro Notebook Brasil · Peggy Mason, U. of Chicago — collaborative neuroscience bibliography: feedback and registration API over SQLite; author network, timeline and gallery rendered client-side
Data
SensorySpeech · U. of Chicago (Neurobiology × Linguistics) — landmark, 2023: taught Python→NLP (tokenization to word embeddings and transformers) while applying it to research on sensory references in natural speech, in the early days of LLM adoption
telemetry · ArteLonga — first-party analytics across the network: ~690 monthly visitors, ~1,800 events, 9 countries; embedded geo, retention and conversions, no third parties
ProprioSuite — proprioceptive testing toolkit (computer vision + ML)
Selected Publications & Patent
- Vieira Sugano, Y. Y., et al. (2022). Helping Can Be Motivated by Non-Affective Cues in Rats. bioRxiv.
- Havlik, J. L., Vieira Sugano, Y. Y., et al. (2020). The Bystander Effect in Rats. Science Advances.
- Madelaire, C. B., Vieira Sugano, Y. Y., et al. (2020). Challenges of Dehydration in Invasive Toads. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
- Patent: Theseometer for Measuring Proprioception Performance — US 11,589,798 B2, University of Chicago.