Giacomo Ciarlini is a founder and technology leader with seven years of experience building AI-first products and communities from Milan. As Co-Founder & CIO of Datapizza he helps organizations adopt AI end-to-end, evolving a 400k-strong community into Italy’s first AI Transformation Company and translating complex tech into clear strategy and high-impact projects. He previously founded Virgilio, an open learning platform with >13k stars and 300k+ readers, demonstrating strong skills in learning engineering, teaching, and open-source data science content creation. Trained as a computer engineer and experienced as a machine learning engineer, he blends hands-on ML/NLP and cloud deployment experience with storytelling and education—preferring to explain models to people rather than only write code. Outside work he’s a devoted strategy-games player and avid student of geopolitics and finance, which informs his instinct for long-term trends and risk-minded product decisions.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineer, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Operational Research, Distributed Systems, Software Engineer, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Operational Research, Distributed Systems at Politécnico de Lisboa
P.N.I., P.N.I. at Liceo Scientifico
Laurea Magistrale, Computer Engineering, Laurea Magistrale, Computer Engineering at Università degli Studi di Ferrara
Contributions:15 reviews, 1045 commits, 141 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Giacomo contributed significantly to the data science e-learning repository by updating and creating Jupyter notebooks focused on data analysis and machine learning concepts. They revised existing notebooks, adding content on Python data science, matrix algebra, and computer vision topics such as object tracking. The user also added Python scripts for image processing tasks, demonstrating skills in handling image data and implementing computer vision functionalities. They also restructured the site and added content around machine learning.
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