Nicola Ghirardi
AI Principal Engineer at Leithà | Unipol Group
Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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Top SchoolNicola Ghirardi is an AI Principal Engineer with 11 years of experience leading data and ML engineering efforts within the Unipol Group, where he builds teams, platforms and best practices for data-driven services. He combines hands-on architecture and platform design—spanning Spark, NoSQL, Python, Scala and MLops—with people leadership and hiring to operationalize data science at scale. His career bridges R&D, enterprise data architecture and teaching, bringing a strong background in digital libraries, rights management and telematics-driven insurance products. Comfortable moving between prototyping and production, he focuses on data patterns, quality and sustainable engineering processes that accelerate model-to-product delivery. Outside work he pursues data journalism and uses cultural interests like cinema to inform creative problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Information Technology, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Information Technology at Università degli Studi di Parma
English, Spanish, Italian
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Github Skills (97)
visualizations10
k8s10
cluster-computing10
java10
elastic10
geospatial10
spatial-analysis10
kibana10
batch-processing10
data-engineering9
scale9
python9
hpa9
mlops9
spatial-query9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
emergenzeHack/documents
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:23 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
dabrign/setProxy
Oct 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 6 months
shellbash-scriptproxybash
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