Gino Tesei
Principal Data Scientist
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGino Tesei is a Principal Data Scientist based in San Francisco with over two decades of engineering experience and 12 years focused on data science, AI, and NLP in enterprise settings. He leads GenAI initiatives at a $171B health insurer, building production-grade RAG/LLM services, vector stores, and evaluation frameworks while shipping custom TypeScript implementations beyond standard GenAI toolkits. His work spans impactful projects from a diabetes prediction model that doubled detection and unlocked over $150M/year in savings to MedQA, a curated conversational medical QA system used during COVID-19. A former Deloitte leader, he has delivered large-scale NLP and deep learning systems for pharma and financial clients, driving substantial efficiency gains and operationalizing Spark and deep-ranking pipelines. With an Executive MBA from SDA Bocconi and an AI certificate from Stanford, he combines technical depth in causal inference, deep learning, and MLOps with strategic product and organizational leadership. Notably, he blends early search-engine and trading-platform engineering roots with modern GenAI at scale, making him adept at turning research into high-impact, production solutions.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Engineering of Computing Systems, Master's Degree Engineering of Computing Systems at Politecnico di MilanoExecutive MBA Strategy & Finance, Executive MBA Strategy & Finance at SDA BocconiGraduate Certificate Artificial Intelligence, Graduate Certificate Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University
English, Italian
Github Skills (46)
transformers10
pytorch10
language-model10
python10
data-science10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
bert10
natural-language-processing10
transformer10
speech-recognition10
nlp10
jax10
seq2seq9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gtesei/fast-furious
Jan 2014 - Mar 2019
Contributions:796 commits, 379 pushes in 5 years 2 months
gtesei/SelfDrivingCars
May 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 133 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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