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Rodrigo Krüger is Director of Data & AI at NTT DATA, where he leads enterprise AI strategy, governance and portfolio, and the AI use cases of the Guepardo platform. He is a member of the company's Global Innovation Team and a PhD candidate in Artificial Intelligence at PUCPR, researching privacy-preserving machine learning over data streams.
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Rodrigo Krüger is Director of Data & AI at NTT DATA, responsible for enterprise AI strategy, governance and portfolio, and for the AI use cases of Guepardo, an enterprise platform for Brazilian tax and fiscal operations used by more than 550 customers. He represents the Brazilian operation in the company's Global Innovation Team.
He joined NTT DATA in 2021 as Delivery Manager for Data & AI and has held his current role since 2023, leading a team of 15. From 2006 to 2021 he was at FH, progressing from SAP consultant to Team Leader, Technology Manager and Delivery Manager for enterprise programs of up to 80 people.
He is a PhD candidate in Artificial Intelligence at PUCPR, where he also teaches, following an MSc and a specialization at the same institution and a degree in Computer Engineering from UEPG. His doctoral thesis, Adaptive algorithms with privacy guarantees, combines privacy-preserving machine learning — federated learning and homomorphic encryption — with data stream mining under concept drift. He has published at IJCNN and BRACIS, and writes the newsletter Between the Lines.
Positions
September 2023 — present
Director of Data & AI
NTT DATA
Lead enterprise Data and AI: AI strategy, portfolio governance, and the conception and evolution of Guepardo AI. Direct a team of 15 across data engineering, analytics and AI, and represent the Brazilian operation in the Global Innovation Team.
March 2021 — August 2023
Delivery Manager, Data & AI
NTT DATA
Owned delivery of Data and AI programs end to end, from customer requirements through production, leading multidisciplinary teams across data engineering, analytics, machine learning and architecture.
January 2016 — March 2021
Delivery Manager, SAP
FH
Owned end-to-end delivery of enterprise programs of up to 80 people, running finance, accounting and tax operations on SAP ECC and S/4HANA. Accountable for scope, budget, quality and operational continuity.
February 2011 — December 2015
Technology Manager
FH
Led a technology organization of approximately 50 consultants, acting as solution architect and technical authority for complex enterprise programs. Represented the organization at international technology forums including SAP TechEd.
December 2007 — May 2011
Team Leader, SAP NetWeaver
FH
Led a consulting practice of approximately 10 consultants, owning technical architecture, delivery quality and consultant development.
July 2006 — December 2007
SAP NetWeaver Consultant
FH
Designed and delivered enterprise portal, knowledge management and collaboration solutions, with custom application development in Java.
January 2006 — June 2006
SAP NetWeaver Consultant
Agile Solutions
Built enterprise applications in Java EE within a global delivery environment, integrating back-end business systems with custom applications.
Roles are listed most recent first, with dates as recorded on LinkedIn.
Education
2024 — 2028 (in progress)
PhD, Artificial Intelligence
PUCPR — Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Graduate Program in Informatics (PPGIa)
Thesis: Adaptive algorithms with privacy guarantees. Supervised by Prof. Dr. Jean Paul Barddal, co-supervised by Prof. Dr. Vinícius M. A. de Souza. Funded by CAPES.
2021 — 2023
MSc, Artificial Intelligence
PUCPR — Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Graduate Program in Informatics (PPGIa)
Dissertation: Peak prediction in time series with application to smart grids. Supervised by Prof. Dr. Vinícius M. A. de Souza. Funded by CAPES.
2019 — 2021
Specialization, Applied Artificial Intelligence
PUCPR — Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná
Final project: a computer vision system for sorting recyclable waste. Supervised by Prof. Dr. Alceu de Souza Britto Jr.
2010 — 2012
Specialization, Project Management
FAE Centro Universitário
Postgraduate specialization in project management, taken while leading enterprise technology delivery.
2002 — 2006
BEng, Computer Engineering
UEPG — Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa (State University of Ponta Grossa)
Final project: Software maintenance — theoretical and practical aspects.
Research
Privacy-preserving machine learning and data stream mining: federated learning, homomorphic encryption, concept drift, and adaptive learning in regulated, data-sensitive environments.
Full research statement →Teaching
Teaches at PUCPR, alongside doctoral research and enterprise practice.
Publications
Peer-reviewed conference papers, with full citation metadata, DOIs and BibTeX on the publications page.
- Rodrigo Kruger, Jean Paul Barddal, Vinícius Mourão Alves de Souza (2026). Training and Test Machine Learning Models on Encrypted Data: Initial Results and Challenges. BRACIS 2025 · Springer LNCS.
- Rodrigo Kruger, Abdullah Mueen, Vinícius Mourão Alves de Souza (2024). Peak Prediction in Time Series: Comparing Approaches for Energy High-Load Prediction. 2024 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN).
Service and membership
- Associate member, Brazilian Computer Society (SBC), since 2024
- Member, Global Innovation Team, NTT DATA
Honors
- Silver medal, Brazilian Informatics Olympiad
Certifications
- GenAI Academy: Black Belt
- SAP Solution Knowledge 2020 — SAP Intelligent Enterprise Partner Ambassador
- SAP Certified Technology Associate — Change Control Management for SAP Solution Manager
Languages
- Portuguese — native
- English — full professional proficiency
- Spanish — full professional proficiency
Profiles and identifiers
- General and professional
- rodrigo.kruger.eng@gmail.com
- Academic and research
- rodkruger@ppgia.pucpr.br