Summary
Claudio Montanari is a software engineer with nine years of experience specializing in distributed systems, high-performance computing, and cloud-native development, currently building production-ready generative AI infrastructure at Modular. He has blended research and industry experience—from LLVM optimizations and scalable delegation protocols at UIC to serverless Generative AI and quantum-focused projects at Elevance Health—bringing a strong systems and performance mindset to product engineering. Claudio’s hands-on background spans Node.js, Java Spring, Quarkus, Kubernetes on GCP, and data ingestion pipelines, enabling him to move models from prototype to resilient, distributed deployments. Based in Chicago, he is passionate about open source and heterogeneous compute, and uniquely combines academic rigor with practical platform engineering to accelerate developer velocity for AI.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science and Engineering, Master's degree Computer Science and Engineering at Politecnico di Milano
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Illinois Chicago
English