Luca Massaron
Data Science & Modelling Senior Expert
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolLuca Massaron is a seasoned Data Science and AI leader based in Milan with over 20 years' experience turning advanced analytics into business impact across finance, insurance and research. He has held senior and lead data science roles at illimity, AXA Italia and Cattolica, building production fraud detection, credit risk and ESG NLP/LLM solutions and blending image, telematics and tabular data for automated claims and pricing. A Kaggle Competitions Grandmaster and former top-10 global competitor, he pairs competitive modeling expertise with practical deployment experience in real-time systems. Luca is also an author and GDE who mentors teams, evangelizes advanced analytics, and has a rare mix of strategic consulting roots and hands-on ML/AI engineering. He holds an Executive MBA and multiple nanodegrees in AI, deep learning and autonomous systems, reflecting both business acumen and continual technical upskilling. Notably, his work spans from high-level risk frameworks to fine-tuning LLMs for ESG risk detection—bridging regulatory needs and cutting-edge models.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Post-graduate certificate Market Research & Analysis, Post-graduate certificate Market Research & Analysis at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di BolognaArtificial Intelligence Nanodegree, Artificial Intelligence Nanodegree at UdacityPMS Strategic Marketing Program, PMS Strategic Marketing Program at SDA BocconiExecutive MBA, Executive MBA at CUOA Business School
Italian, English, French, Japanese
Stackoverflow
1,774reputation
126kreached
34answers
10questions
scikit-learn
top-5%
Github Skills (65)
gbm10
parallel10
python10
r10
gradient-boosting10
gradient10
lightgbm10
high-performance10
kaggle10
classification10
decision-tree10
data-mining10
machine-learning10
boosting10
feature-selection9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lmassaron/kaggledays-2019-gbdt
Dec 2018 - Dec 2021
Contributions:56 commits, 28 pushes in 3 years
lmassaron/algo4d_2ed
Apr 2018 - Jan 2022
Contributions:69 commits, 25 pushes in 3 years 10 months
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