Summary
Gian Santopaolo is a Principal Generative AI Engineer based in the Lugano metropolitan area with nearly two decades of software engineering and architecture experience and a decade focused on advanced AI systems. He architects and delivers end-to-end AI stacks—POCs to production—specializing in agentic systems, fine-tuning, RAG, MLOps and AI cluster deployments, with clients including a major European railway company and multi-lingual law firms. His career blends deep .NET and enterprise architecture roots with modern generative AI practices, enabling pragmatic modernization of legacy apps and mitigation of hallucinations. Known for translating complex business processes into automated agentic workflows, he pairs hands-on coding with technical leadership roles such as Technical Fellow and Dev Team Lead. Currently expanding formal AI credentials through Stanford’s AI professional program, he brings both long-term systems thinking and recent, production-grade generative AI delivery experience.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Artificial Intelligence Professional Program, Artificial Intelligence Professional Program at Stanford University
English, Italian