Diego Piccinotti
Senior Data Scientist
Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolDiego Piccinotti is a Senior Data Scientist with nine years of experience building and deploying ML and AI-driven user-facing products, specializing in Python, PyTorch and end-to-end infrastructure on AWS and GCP. He has hands-on experience self-hosting and fine-tuning large language models (including a deployed 3B model that cut ABSA processing costs by 20x) and designing Kubernetes-based ML backends for scalable web platforms. Diego blends research-grade experimentation—Monte Carlo Tree Search for F1 pit-stop strategy and CycleGAN style-transfer work—with production engineering skills, having led release automation and internal tooling initiatives. Comfortable liaising across data science and engineering teams, he also mentors emerging talent (selected as a LeadTheFuture mentee) and is adept at translating novel ML approaches into cost-effective, operational systems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Engineering, 110 cum Laude, Bachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Engineering, 110 cum Laude at Università degli studi di ParmaMaster of Science - MSc, Computer Science and Engineering, 106/110, Master of Science - MSc, Computer Science and Engineering, 106/110 at Politecnico di Milano
Italian, English, French
Github Skills (11)
opt7
large-language-models5
gpt5
gpt4all5
llama3
gradio3
android2
player2
circuit2
simulation2
robocup2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mcarretta/Equilibrium
Nov 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:85 commits, 66 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
d1ggs/DIAproject
Jan 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:8 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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