Marco Fossati
Software Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation
Mendrisio, Ticino, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolMarco Fossati is a software engineer and researcher with 12 years of experience applying NLP, record linkage, and knowledge base completion to real-world problems. Currently at the Wikimedia Foundation, he has led major grant-funded projects from prototype to production and previously built knowledge-graph and relation-extraction systems in industry and research labs such as FBK and Huawei Ireland. A polyglot in both natural and programming languages, he combines PhD-level expertise in data and knowledge management with hands-on engineering across cloud and research environments. An advocate for Open Data and Free Software, he co-founded Spaziodati and helped seed the Italian DBpedia knowledge graph—bringing academic rigor to practical, community-focused platforms. Less obvious: he repeatedly operates at the intersection of fundraising, product ownership, and low-level research, turning exploratory grants into sustainable production services.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master 1, Information Technology, Master 1, Information Technology at Université Paris Sorbonne (Paris IV)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Università degli Studi di TrentoMaster 2, Information Technology, Master 2, Information Technology at Institut national des Langues et Civilisations orientales
Italian, French, Spanish, English, python, java, Latin, Romanian, Portuguese, Chinese
Github Skills (73)
python10
record-linkage10
lda10
wikipedia10
semantics10
data-matching10
knowledge-graph10
fact10
wikimedia10
extraction10
entity-resolution10
wikidata9
entity-linking9
deep-learning9
pytorch9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Wikidata/soweego
Jul 2018 - Dec 2021
Link Wikidata items to large catalogs
Contributions:13 reviews, 352 commits, 183 PRs in 3 years 5 months
data-matchingrecord-linkagewikimedialdaentity-linking
marfox/wikidata-query-rdf
Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:25 commits, 56 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
queryhostedgithub-mirrorwikidatagerrit
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