Speaking
Invite me for keynotes, brown-bags or panels. Formats 25–45 minutes · IT/EN · Online/On-site.
Evaluation-First GenAI: Ship with Confidence
Build a repeatable evaluation & monitoring pipelines (offline + online) for GenAI solutions.
Build, Buy, Fine-Tune or RAG ?
Take the right choice for GenAI solutions. Avoid lock-in and overspend with a no-business decision framework.
Request this talkGuardrails, Not Handcuffs
Move faster with GenAI by constraining it well. Add policy-by-design, safe step limits, and audit-ready traces to ship faster, not slower. Limits are the runway, not the fence.
Request this talkInitiatives
Side projects around AI education and community.
stAI tuned
Media & education project sharing practical AI insights and culture.
- 80+ articles (and growing)
- LinkedIn network ~7k (active posting/reposts)
Nova Mentor
Mentoring university students on career paths.
- Mentored Italian and Spanish students
AI Coach · Profession AI
Reviewing student projects and guiding ML solutions.
- 150+ projects reviewed across multiple ML tracks
Deep Learning Course · PyTorch
7 hours of hands-on sessions: fundamentals, building models, labs.
About
About Me
Principal Data Scientist & AI Strategy Lead with 5+ years across AI/ML, NLP and GenAI.
- Shaping the AI technical strategy @ Sky Italia
- Leading cross-functional teams
- Turning research into scalable, business-ready solutions for media & telco
- Coaching aspiring data scientists
I write and curate stAI Tuned, an AI media/education project, and I speak about AI & Innovation, the application of GenAI to real business problems, and Data Science growth.
Awards
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2022
Nova 111 List (Italy): Top talent in Entertainment, Media & Communications under 35.
Nova 111 2022 -
Nova Talent
Nova Talent Member: Merit-based network connecting the top 3% of global talent.
Membership Certification
Expertise
Key areas from my work experience, with hands-on impact and leadership.
GenAIGenerative AI
- Q&A Agent: Built a conversational assistant trained on domain-specific data using LangChain and multi-LLM orchestration.
- Prompt Engineering: Refined prompts for LLMs (GPT, Gemini, open-source via Hugging Face/LlamaCpp) to maximize answer quality.
- Synthetic Data Generation: Developed a custom Diffusion Model in PyTorch for privacy-preserving tabular data synthesis.
- GenAI Hackathon: Finalist at Sky Group & Google hackathon, delivering a business use case with LangChain and PaLM.
AnalyticsPredictive Analytics
- Propensity Models: Built models to predict customer behavior and improve lifetime value (Supervised & Semi-Supervised Learning).
- Time-Series Analysis: Now-casting financial data to detect anomalies and trends for data-driven decisions.
NLPAdvanced NLP Analytics
- Topic Modeling: Built models for topic assignment on short/long texts (Semi/Unsupervised Learning).
- Clustering Analysis: Semantic analysis using pre-trained word/sentence embeddings.
- Virtual Assistant: Developed custom assistants in Python (Rasa), including async server orchestration.
- Named Entity Recognition: Custom NER with char/word embeddings, fine-tuned on proprietary data.
CVComputer Vision
- Image Denoising: Enhanced ID document images to improve OCR accuracy.
- Anomaly Detection: Patch-wise image analysis for anomaly detection.
- Background Subtraction: Gaussian mixture model for foreground removal in highway videos.
Resume
Professional Experience
Principal Data Scientist
Jul 2025 – PresentLeading the Data Science technical strategy with a focus on GenAI & NLP. I design tailored solutions to real business problems, involve stakeholders early, explain trade-offs in plain language, and supervise delivery from PoC to production.
Key responsibilities
- Roadmap & standards: set DS architecture, guardrails and portfolio priorities.
- Innovation to scale: drive PoC/PoV work and industrialize winners with reusable patterns, tooling and governance.
- Executive communication: clarify design choices, pros/cons and expected impact to secure sponsorship and budget.
- Stakeholder adoption: translate pain points into outcomes, drive change, and measure results.
- Technical oversight: design reviews, make/buy, cost–risk–performance trade-offs, vendor selection.
Selected achievements
- Launched the first in-house GenAI analysis tool at Sky Italia, from concept to rollout.
- Automated customer understanding on high-volume interaction data, improving targeting and decision speed.
Keywords: Technical Leadership, AI Strategy, GenAI, NLP
Lead Data Scientist
Mar 2022 – Aug 2025I led cross-functional teams delivering AI initiatives in ML, NLP and Generative AI for the media & telco domain.
Key responsibilities & achievements
- Owned the end-to-end lifecycle from PoC to production, improving operational efficiency.
- Reduced churn through predictive models for marketing.
- Implemented NLP & GenAI solutions that significantly improved process efficiency.
- Aligned DS strategies with business goals through proactive stakeholder engagement.
- Mentored and supervised data scientists, fostering a learning and innovation culture.
Stack: Python, PyTorch, SQL, GCP, Airflow, GenAI (LLMs) · Keywords: NLP, Generative AI, Predictive Modeling, Stakeholder Management, Mentoring
Data Scientist
May 2020 – Jan 2021- Custom NER for document understanding; CV denoising to boost OCR.
- Projects on GCP (compute, PaaS, storage).
Stack: Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, OpenCV, GCP
AI Engineer — Internship
Sep 2018 – Feb 2019- Built a visual classifier for a fashion virtual assistant; integrated via REST/Telegram.
Stack: Python, PyTorch, IBM Watson
Education
Master's Thesis Researcher
2019 – 2020Title: "Anomaly Detection through Ganomaly: patch-wise training and transfer learning"
M.Sc. Computer Science and Engineering (AI track)
2017 – 2020Athens Programme — From Complexity to Intelligence
2019Erasmus+
2018B.Sc. Computer Engineering
2014 – 2017Languages
- Italian: Native
- English: B2 TOEIC
- Spanish: B2 — lived 6 months in Valencia
Certifications
Google Cloud — Associate Cloud Engineer
See credentialSkills
Tech Leadership for Data Science, with hands-on fluency to review designs, de-risk delivery, and scale what works.
Leadership & Strategy
- AI Strategy: roadmap, guardrails, make/buy, vendor due diligence.
- From PoC to Scale: reusable patterns, platform tooling, rollout playbooks.
- Stakeholder Leadership: executive communication, change management, team rituals.
GenAI & NLP Strategy / Design Reviews
- GenAI solution patterns: retrieval-augmented Q&A, agents/tools, evaluation before demo.
- Quality & Cost control: test sets, human-in-the-loop, cost per answer/insight.
Representative technologies (hands-on when needed)
Personal Projects
Here are some personal projects developed in my free time and my university career
Portfolio Analysis
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Sentiment Analysis
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Genre Detection
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Soccer Prediction
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Anomaly Detection
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Background Subtraction
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AirQo Forecasting
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Finance Forecasting
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Fraud Detection
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Let's Connect
I'm based in Milan, Italy and open to speaking, collaborations, and new opportunities.
Location
Milan, Italy