Luca Basanisi
Senior Data Scientist
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolLuca Basanisi is a Senior Data Scientist based in Rotterdam with eight years of experience building and leading data science teams to deliver ML-driven products for operations and marketing analytics. He blends hands-on modelling—especially forecasting and Bayesian approaches—with product-focused tooling that helps stakeholders act on predictions, most recently enriching flight schedules at Royal Schiphol Group. At Nielsen he progressed from individual contributor to principal, creating an internal Python package and shaping coding standards while managing and mentoring teams of 6–25 data scientists. A former PhD in theoretical physics, Luca brings rigorous quantitative thinking and a research mindset to applied problems, and he stays immersed in the community by contributing and learning on Kaggle. Notably, he balances technical leadership with code-level contributions, ensuring solutions are both innovative and production-ready.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Theoretical Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Theoretical Physics at University of GroningenMaster's degree, Theoretical Physics, Master's degree, Theoretical Physics at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Italian, English, Dutch
Github Skills (17)
python9
statistics9
model-validation9
data-analysis8
fairness-ml8
machine-learning8
validation8
prediction-model8
data-science8
scikit-learn7
scikit7
kaggle4
mlops4
lightgbm3
ml3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lucabasa/kaggle_dutch_energy
Dec 2018 - Aug 2021
Creation of the kaggle dataset and kernels
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 2 years 8 months
kaggledatasetmachine-learninglightgbmkernels
lucabasa/kaggle_competitions
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
A collection of all the code I put together for Kaggle competitions
Contributions:7 PRs, 162 pushes, 23 branches in 3 years 10 months
kagglepythonmachine-learningdata-science
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