Leo Ghignone
Senior Software Engineer at UNSW Canberra
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolLeo Ghignone is a Senior Software Engineer and machine learning researcher with nine years of experience, recently completing a PhD at UNSW Canberra focused on efficient and distributed deep reinforcement learning. His work spans academic research—covering general game playing, driver distraction detection, and cognitive science—and practical engineering in data and web back-end/front-end systems. Based in Hobart, he has blended roles as a data engineer and researcher, now contributing to resilience-focused intelligent systems at UNSW Canberra. Comfortable both deepening expertise in RL and branching into new domains, he pairs strong theoretical grounding with hands-on production experience. An underappreciated strength is his track record of translating research prototypes into robust data-driven applications across academia and industry.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at UNSW CanberraLaurea Magistrale LM, Informatics, 110/110 e Lode, Laurea Magistrale LM, Informatics, 110/110 e Lode at Università degli Studi di Torino
English, Italian, French
Github Skills (49)
osgeo10
ogc10
geospatial10
geojson10
capability10
python-server10
api10
code-golf10
endpoint10
describe9
tabular9
hackage9
restful9
openapi9
rest-api9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
barbuz/campfire
Jan 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
barbuz/Husk
Feb 2017 - May 2021
Functional golfing language inspired by Haskell.
Contributions:103 commits, 3 PRs, 62 pushes in 4 years 3 months
code-golffunctional-programminghaskellgolfing-languagegolfing
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