Software Developer Researcher at Higher Order Company
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Lorenzo Battistela is a software developer and researcher from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, with five years of experience building backend systems, data pipelines, and formal research tools. He blends practical engineering—APIs, automation, TDD, and data extraction—with formal methods work, currently researching symbolic AI and developing a proof language and parallel runtime using Agda and Haskell. Lorenzo has hands-on QA and test-automation experience in notable open-source projects like pandas-ai, where he improved pytest infrastructure and broadened LLM test coverage across implementations such as OpenAI and Hugging Face. Comfortable across Ruby, JavaScript, Haskell and verification tooling, he brings a rare mix of production-grade backend skills and formal-programming rigor.
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Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:7 reviews, 4 PRs, 15 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Lorenzo's contributions focused on improving the testing infrastructure and test coverage for the pandas-ai project. They refactored the test setup by replacing redundant code with pytest fixtures, enhancing the tests for various functionalities including conversational answers, code execution, and privacy enforcement. Additionally, they added and modified tests for different LLM implementations like OpenAI, Base Hugging Face and Starcoder, ensuring the robustness of the library. They also addressed specific issues related to logging and chart saving within the testing framework.
Contributions:38 commits, 24 PRs, 48 pushes in 4 months
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Lorenzo Battistela - Software Developer Researcher at Higher Order Company