Summary
Ignazio Lamanna is a software engineer and senior Linguistics and Computer Science student at Columbia University with 11 years of professional experience that combine military leadership and computational linguistics. He has taught advanced language modeling and cognitive linguistics courses as a head TA, applying formal grammars like LFG and RRG to help students bridge linguistic theory and practical modeling. Prior service as a Section Leader in the 82nd Airborne and time in the 75th Ranger Regiment contributed disciplined project leadership, team training, and security-conscious execution. Based in New York, he brings a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to language-focused software problems and describes himself wryly as a “0.10x developer,” signaling a self-aware, curious mindset.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Linguistics and Computer Science, Senior, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Linguistics and Computer Science, Senior at Columbia University