Luca Baggi
AI Engineer at Università degli Studi di Milano
Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolLuca Baggi is an AI Engineer with six years of experience building production-grade ML systems, specializing in LLM orchestration, guardrails, and scalable microservices on Kubernetes. He blends research-minded evaluation of the latest LLM literature with practical engineering—designing token compression, adaptive batching with Ray/BentoML, and near-real-time data pipelines for business intelligence. A passionate educator and community builder, Luca teaches machine learning and statistics at the University of Milan, speaks at Python conferences across Europe, and helps organize monthly Python and PyData events in Milan. His background as an economics and finance reporter gives him a rare ability to translate complex technical ideas into clear narratives for both C-level and developer audiences. An active open-source maintainer and Polars advocate, he also hosts the AI Compass podcast to bridge practitioners and leaders in AI product design.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of MilanBachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy at Università degli Studi di BergamoErasmus+ Grant, Filosofia, Erasmus+ Grant, Filosofia at University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne
Italian, English, French
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Github Skills (200)
dataflow10
json-schema10
workspace10
datasets10
apache-arrow10
ets10
data-cleaning10
tabular10
linter10
data-preprocessing10
progress-bar10
computer-vision10
nlp10
multiclass-classification10
vte10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
baggiponte/awesome-pandas-alternatives
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Awesome list of alternative dataframe libraries in Python.
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 1 year 1 month
polarspythondatadaskarrow
xtreamsrl/movies-buddy
Dec 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:5 reviews, 22 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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