Nicola Bova
Head Of Marketplace Efficiency And Data Streaming Platform (Yango International)
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolNicola Bova is a tech leader and hands-on architect with over a decade building data-intensive, cloud-native platforms and machine learning systems across mobility, fintech, and consumer apps. Currently Head of Marketplace Efficiency and Data Streaming at Yango, he led the integration of Wind Mobility’s real-time data infrastructure into a global taxi platform and has deep expertise with Kafka, Avro, Spark, Kubernetes and event-driven/lambda architectures. His background spans academic research in NLP and computer vision (PhD-level) to productionizing GDPR-compliant streaming ML pipelines that handle both batch and real-time analytics. Known for restructuring teams and introducing modern DevOps practices, he combines rigorous research instincts with pragmatic engineering to turn complex event models into maintainable CI/CD-driven services. Based in Barcelona, he often bridges the gap between formal research (e.g., Winograd Schema work) and robust, production-grade data platforms.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Computer Vision, Soft Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Computer Vision, Soft Computing, Artificial Intelligence at Universidad de OviedoMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Software Engineering at Università degli Studi di ParmaSecondary School, Secondary School at Liceo Scientifico
English, Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (180)
apache-spark10
python10
hadoop10
perl10
python-client10
confluent-platform10
avro10
r10
big-data10
scale10
sql10
data-processing10
kafka-connect10
spark10
connect10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Haufe-Lexware/spark-text-pipes
Aug 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:326 pushes, 35 branches, 1 tag in 1 year
redsk/neo_merger
Aug 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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