Nicola Ischia
Lead Software Development Hub Milan at Schindler Group
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolNicola Ischia is a Lead Software Development manager based in Milan with 8 years of experience building production software and data-driven solutions for the elevator industry. He currently leads Schindler’s Milan R&D hub, managing 40+ software engineers across agile teams to deliver embedded software, analytics, and connected-elevator platforms. His background spans applied research and productization—running innovation labs, supervising MSc theses, and coordinating ML, NLP, and UX projects in collaboration with EPFL. As a former reinforcement learning engineer he developed custom simulators and reward models to optimize elevator control, balancing wait times and energy use. Nicola combines strong academic credentials from Politecnico di Milano and EPFL with hands-on prototyping experience (autonomous robots, sensor fusion, anomaly detection), making him adept at turning research prototypes into scalable industrial systems. He’s known for fostering open innovation—organizing hackathons and external collaborations to surface practical, customer-driven solutions.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Mathematical Engineering - Track in Computational Science, 110/110 (with honors), Master of Science - MS, Mathematical Engineering - Track in Computational Science, 110/110 (with honors) at Politecnico di MilanoMaster of Science - MS, Computational Science and Engineering, GPA 5.89/6, Master of Science - MS, Computational Science and Engineering, GPA 5.89/6 at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
Italian, English, French, German
Github Skills (26)
pytorch10
parallel10
python10
large-language-models10
reinforcement-learning10
java10
ray10
optimization10
data-science9
scaling9
llm9
llm-inference9
machine-learning9
tensorflow9
deep-learning9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
LeonardoPollina/ML_project_2
Nov 2018 - Aug 2023
Contributions:94 pushes in 4 years 10 months
spig95/riocontra-translator
Feb 2021 - Apr 2022
A useful translator if you happen to meet the 'uncle-of-the-road' in the streets of Milan.
Contributions:2 releases, 12 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 2 months
roadnormalizationmeetfrenchcss
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