Giacomo Berardi
Machine Learning Engineer & Backend Developer at SpazioDati srl
San Giuliano Terme, Tuscany, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolGiacomo Berardi is a Machine Learning Engineer and Backend Developer with 13 years of experience building text analytics and SaaS products from research prototypes to production. He has driven R&D for APIs like Dandelion and the Sales Intelligence service Atoka, solving critical features for large text-stream applications and production infrastructures. His background blends academic research in text classification and web retrieval—peer-reviewed work and EU projects—with hands-on systems engineering, including a visiting researcher stint at Yahoo Labs on distributed word embeddings. Based in Tuscany, he pairs a PhD in Information Engineering with practical expertise in Python, NLP, and scalable backend services. Colleagues value him for turning advanced NLP research into robust, deployable services that handle real-time data. An understated strength is his track record of moving features across the full lifecycle, from algorithm design to deployment and operational stability.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Università degli Studi di PerugiaESSIR 2011, 8th European Summer School on Information RetrievalA+, A+ at Lipari School on Computational Social Science: Big DataMaster's degree, Computer Science, 110/110, Master's degree, Computer Science, 110/110 at University of PisaESSIR 2013, 9th European Summer School in Information Retrieval
Italian, English
Github Skills (96)
python10
arabic-nlp10
classifier10
lda10
fasttext10
wordnet10
glove10
word2vec10
corpus10
agent-framework10
document-classification10
topic-modeling10
nlp10
sentence-embeddings10
gensim10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
giacbrd/ShallowLearn
Oct 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:5 releases, 261 commits, 198 pushes in 10 months
supervised-learningpythonexclusivesupervisedshallow-neural-network
SpazioDati/llm-elasticsearch-cache
Feb 2024 - Feb 2025
A caching layer for LLMs that exploits Elasticsearch, fully compatible with LangChain caching, both for chat and embeddings models.
Contributions:11 reviews, 12 PRs, 38 pushes in 1 year
chatgptchatgpt-apiembeddingslangchainlangchain-python
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