Andrea Villa
Co-Founder & CTO at Stateloop
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrea Villa is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 13 years of experience building resilient distributed systems, security tooling, and AI data infrastructure. As Co-Founder & CTO at Stateloop and previously at NeoDynamics and IOTA, he blends cryptography, consensus protocol design, and AI—having led the development of a production-ready IOTA node and a consensus algorithm for a major cryptocurrency. He has deep hands-on expertise from red teaming and exploit development to DevOps automation, continuous testing (including modernizing IOTA's regression suite to Python3) and scalable mainnet operations. Andrea turns complex telemetry into ML-ready assets—engineering multi-modal embeddings and VLMs that auto-label gameplay for embodied AI at hyperscale. Based in Amsterdam, he favors pragmatic, test-driven engineering and rapid iteration, and often operates at the intersection of privacy-preserving tech (FHE, ZKPs) and applied machine learning. Practical, fast, and curious, he thrives on projects that combine low-level systems work with cutting-edge AI research.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Liceo Classico "Giovanni Berchet"Deep Learning Specialization, Deep Learning Specialization at CourseraUniversitat Politècnica de València
Italian, Spanish, English, Portuguese
Github Skills (12)
bash10
regression-testing10
python10
cicd10
test-automation10
iota9
git9
kubernetes6
kubernetes-pods6
dockers5
docker5
zeromq5
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
iotaledger/iri
Jul 2018 - Jan 2020
IOTA Reference Implementation
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:14 commits, 16 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Andrea's primary contributions revolve around enhancing the regression testing infrastructure within the repository. They modified the `ciglue.sh` script to improve test execution, including adapting it to run regression tests locally and addressing potential issues when cloning the TIAB repository. Further contributions involved migrating the regression tests to Python3, indicating a focus on maintaining and modernizing the testing framework. The user also made changes to the `TransactionRequester` to facilitate the development of features within the testing suite.
iotareference-implementation
karimodm/iri
May 2018 - Dec 2019
IOTA Reference Implementation
Contributions:1 release, 41 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 7 months
iotareference-implementation
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