Summary
Francesco Battocchio is a Lead AI Engineer with nine years of cross-industry experience building production-grade ML and full-stack AI solutions, currently leading the AI team at 1touch.io in Barcelona. He combines hands-on model development (computer vision, NLP, time-series, predictive maintenance) with technical leadership, having architected GenAI search assistants, sensitive-data detection at production inference speeds, and synthetic data/active learning pipelines. Francesco has repeatedly built and scaled AI teams and roadmaps at startups and consultancies, and brings an uncommon mix of PhD-level mechanics-of-materials rigor and practical engineering from roles at Schlumberger, Group 42, and energy trading platforms. He also teaches Responsible AI to business students, reflecting his focus on trustworthy, deployable systems that solve real operational problems.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Material Engineering, Master’s Degree Material Engineering at Università di Trento
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mechanics of Materials, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mechanics of Materials at University of Cambridge
Italian, English