Francesco Ventura
AI Tech Lead Staff AI Engineer at Sysdig
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolFrancesco Ventura is an AI Tech Lead and Staff AI Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently driving AI-first initiatives at Sysdig to secure cloud and runtime environments. He blends deep academic expertise—a Ph.D. in Data Science focused on explainable deep models—with hands-on engineering of large-scale, cloud-native ML pipelines and agentic AI frameworks for vulnerability management. His work spans NLP interfaces that translate user intent into SysQL investigations, scalable analysis of Kubernetes and multi-cloud assets, and real-time multi-assistant systems for security analysts. A published researcher who has built practical tools for explainability and concept-drift detection, he uniquely bridges theory and production, mentoring teams to adopt AI responsibly in cybersecurity. Based in Milan, he pairs distributed-systems savvy with a track record of shipping ML-Ops infrastructure and cross-functional R&D that moves research prototypes into operational use.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Data Science and Data Management, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Data Science and Data Management at Politecnico di Torino
Italian, English
Github Skills (13)
explainable-artificial-intelligence6
machine-learning4
nlp4
python4
deep-learning3
language-processing3
data-science3
bert3
natural-language-processing3
data-management3
topic-modeling3
training-data3
word2vec2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
agora-ecosystem/data-farm
Mar 2021 - Jun 2021
Expand your Training Limits! Generating Training Data for ML-based Data Management
Contributions:1 release, 24 commits, 4 PRs in 2 months
limitsdata-managementpythondata-sciencemachine-learning
EBAnO-Ecosystem/EBAnO-Express
Jul 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:20 commits, 9 pushes in 11 months
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