Davide Pasetto
Managing Director - Modeling Engineering at Two Sigma
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavide Pasetto is a seasoned technology leader and Managing Director of Modeling Engineering at Two Sigma with over a decade of experience building high-performance, distributed systems across finance, telecom, gaming and internet industries. He combines deep hands-on expertise in parallel and distributed design, Linux and network administration, and software architecture with a track record of technical leadership from startup founding to senior research roles at IBM. Davide has led complex projects—from softswitch and VoIP platforms to HPC visualization and regulatory-NLP research—consistently turning demanding requirements into pragmatic, high-performance solutions. At Two Sigma he drives modeling tools and platform innovation while contributing to open-source projects like Apache Arrow to improve modularity and performance in data processing stacks. Known for spotting subtle interactions between architecture and operational constraints, he reliably selects the right technologies to meet customer needs and scale systems in production.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at Università degli studi di
Italian, English
Github Skills (8)
apache-arrow10
c-language10
refactoring10
cprogramming-language10
dependency-management9
parquet8
python6
r6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
apache/arrow
Mar 2023 - Jun 2023
Apache Arrow is the universal columnar format and multi-language toolbox for fast data interchange and in-memory analytics
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 5 PRs, 38 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Davide primarily focused on refactoring and reorganizing code within the Apache Arrow project, specifically related to dependency management and the movement of components from compute/exec to other modules like compute and acero. This involved significant changes to the codebase to reduce entanglement, improve modularity, and prepare for the removal of acero from libarrow. The user also updated relevant Python and R libraries, and contributed to testing.
memorymulti-languagetoolboxacceleratedarrow
twosigma/beakerx_widgets
Jul 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:45 commits, 39 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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