Summary
Ugo Scaiella is a seasoned software engineering leader, currently Head of Engineering at SpazioDati srl in Tuscany, Italy, where he oversees a 50-person engineering team and collaborates with executives and product teams to shape the roadmap and optimize delivery. He specializes in architectural coordination, scaling teams, stakeholder collaboration, and mentoring, having doubled the development team to meet growing business demands. With a background as a software engineer and tech lead, his work spans information retrieval, machine learning, NLP, search engines, and big data across diverse companies, underpinned by a strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and three years of research with 1k+ citations. As Developer Team Lead at SpazioDati (2013-2018), he designed the Dandelion API, an entity linking system trusted by Amazon and ING Bank. He holds a Master and a Bachelor in Computer Science from Università di Pisa, and his research has appeared in top conferences such as CIKM, WSDM, and ECIR, garnering over 1,000 citations.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea Specialistica (Master Degree), Computer Science, Laurea Specialistica (Master Degree), Computer Science at Università di Pisa
English, Italian