Fabio Castaldo is a research-oriented engineer with a PhD in Artificial Intelligence applied to speech recognition and over a decade of experience spanning speech processing, mobile platforms, startup CTO roles, and blockchain research. He co-founded Fulgur Lab to explore trustless off-chain architectures for Bitcoin and permissionless derivatives, blending deep academic expertise with practical crypto consulting since Bitcoin’s early days. Previously he built and led the tech stack for fashion search engine TrovaModa and served as CTO in media and startup environments, consistently translating research into production systems. His background includes advanced work in speaker and language recognition at Loquendo and postdoctoral research at Politecnico di Torino, with top academic honors throughout. Comfortable at the intersection of research and product, he brings rare depth in acoustic modeling, mobile development, and decentralized finance engineering.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Dottorato, Computer Engineering, PhD, Dottorato, Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Torino
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