Andrea Cognolato
Software Engineer at Optiver
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolAndrea Cognolato is a Software Engineer with 11 years of experience blending machine learning, Bayesian statistics, and systems engineering at companies including Optiver and Uffizio.ch. He pairs a strong academic background (MSc with honors in Data Science) and an Erasmus focus on ML/AI with hands-on work across Haskell, Rust, Python, C++, and full-stack web technologies. At Optiver he has delivered production-grade tooling and as an intern achieved an 8x runtime improvement on a compliance batch job, while at Uffizio he led a Haskell/PureScript eCommerce stack and maintained ecosystem libraries. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved cross-platform Rust UI tooling (druid-shell), adding menus, file dialogs and GTK support—demonstrating a knack for pragmatic, cross-language solutions. Based in Amsterdam, he combines quantitative curiosity with production engineering, often bridging research-grade ML ideas and robust, deployable systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus exchange student - Machine Learning, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Erasmus exchange student - Machine Learning, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at Aalto UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, 110/110, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, 110/110 at Politecnico di Torino
Italian, English
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Github Skills (11)
uid10
menu10
gtk10
rust10
cross-platform10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
multiplatform10
menubar10
implement10
file-dialog9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
linebender/druid
Sep 2019 - Oct 2019
A data-first Rust-native UI design toolkit.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 6 PRs, 9 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Andrea primarily contributed to the `druid-shell` component, a UI design toolkit. Their work includes refactoring and formatting code with `rustfmt`, fixing errors and improving the codebase. Furthermore, the user implemented menu functionality, including separators, and added features like setting titles and integrating clipboard contents. They demonstrated a focus on cross-platform UI implementation, particularly for the GTK platform, by introducing file dialog support.
rustui-design
mrandri19/dotfiles
Jul 2015 - Aug 2023
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 3 months
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