Alessandro Panella
Senior Manager, Data Science - Messenger Ecosystems
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAlessandro Panella is a data science leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling analytics and ML teams across infrastructure, security, and product domains. Currently Senior Manager for Data Science on Meta’s Messenger Ecosystems, he previously led cross-functional data science groups at Lacework focused on cloud security risk, anomaly detection, and cost-optimized infrastructure. His background blends deep research training (PhD-level work in AI and stochastic planning) with hands-on production forecasting and capacity-planning systems at Facebook. A board member of The Data Science Conference, he pairs academic rigor with practical impact—often translating complex time-series and resource-optimization models into operational improvements for large-scale services.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of Illinois ChicagoLaurea Specialistica - M.Sc. Computer Engineering, Laurea Specialistica - M.Sc. Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Milano
English, Italian
Github Skills (12)
predictive10
exploratory9
wps5
datasets5
api5
ckan5
open-datasets4
python4
geospatial4
spatial-analysis4
time-series3
wcs3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
dssg/411-on-311
Jun 2013 - Aug 2014
Exploratory analysis and predictive models of how Chicago's neighborhoods interact with the City's 311 service requests.
Contributions:79 commits in 1 year 2 months
chicagoexploratoryneighborhoodspredictive-modelsinteract
UrbanCCD-UChicago/plenario-JDE
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch, 3 issues in 21 days
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