Davide Allavena
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolDavide Allavena is a Data Scientist Team Lead with 14 years of experience blending full-stack engineering, semantic web technologies and machine learning to build systems that make machines behave more like humans. Based in Turin, he has led teams at SpazioDati (Cerved Group) and Synapta, delivering production Linked Data and SPARQL-driven solutions for public data projects like contrattipubblici.org. Comfortable both in hands‑on back-end maintenance—evidenced by contributions to the popular doccano annotation tool—and in strategic team leadership, he prioritizes code quality, maintainability and reproducible ML workflows. With a physics background from Università di Pavia and a history at research-oriented Nexa Center, he brings a research mindset to pragmatic product engineering. Colleagues value his knack for turning complex semantic models into practical, auditable services that scale.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea triennale, Fisica, Laurea triennale, Fisica at Università degli Studi di Pavia
Github Skills (9)
isort10
back-end-development10
python10
django10
refactor9
refactoring9
api8
apidoc8
natural-language-processing7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
doccano/doccano
May 2021 - May 2021
Open source annotation tool for machine learning practitioners.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Davide primarily focused on back-end code maintenance and refactoring tasks. They performed migration merges, removed unnecessary imports, and added newline characters to the end of files. The user also consistently applied "isort" fixes to improve the code's organization and readability. These commits demonstrate a focus on code quality and maintainability within the project's back-end structure.
nlppractitionerspythontext-annotationdataset
synapta/OLAF-ICCD
Dec 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:1 release, 35 commits, 10 PRs in 1 month
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