Andrea Pierleoni
Applied Science Manager - Alexa AI at Amazon
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndrea Pierleoni is an applied science leader with 15 years’ experience at the intersection of NLP, ML and bioinformatics, currently managing Applied Science for Alexa AI at Amazon. He has led AI teams from hands-on model development to strategic delivery, previously directing AI at Healx to accelerate drug discovery for rare diseases and building backend systems at EMBL-EBI’s Open Targets. His career spans industry and academia—PhD-trained in computational biology with early roles as a bioinformatics consultant and contract professor—bringing rigorous research methods to production ML. Known for translating complex biomedical problems into scalable ML products, he combines deep domain expertise with proven leadership in cross-functional, product-driven environments. An understated strength is his ability to bridge life-science data intricacies with modern NLP pipelines, enabling impactful translational outcomes.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at University of BolognaPhD, Computational Biology, PhD, Computational Biology at Università degli Studi di Bologna
English, Italian
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Github Skills (122)
cython10
graphic10
bioinformatics10
pattern9
data-preprocessing9
neural9
phrase9
corenlp9
nlp9
batch9
arabic-nlp9
entity-linking9
python9
fairness-ml9
flask-restful9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apierleoni/BioGraPy
Dec 2010 - Feb 2016
Biological Graphic tool in Python
Contributions:51 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 5 years 2 months
biologicalbioinformaticspythongraphic
CTTV/elasticsearch
Mar 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes in 1 year
dockerfiletrustedbuildsdocker-automateddocker
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