Nicola Russo
Senior Cloud Production Engineer at Università Bocconi
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolNicola Russo is a Senior Cloud Production Engineer based in Milan with 10 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructures, driving cloud adoption and migration as a solutions architect at Università Bocconi. He blends hands-on DevOps practice—IaC, CI/CD, monitoring and cost optimization—with product and leadership experience from founding and leading smart-home startups and serving on boards. His background includes optimizing infrastructure at McLaren Applied and shaping technical strategy as a CTO, giving him a rare mix of enterprise and entrepreneurial perspectives. An active maker, he contributes to open-source robotics and reinforcement learning projects (notably improving quadruped gait models in an OpenAI Gym environment), reflecting a practical curiosity for applied ML and control systems. Known for a pragmatic problem-solving approach, he seeks solutions that are both robust in production and innovative in implementation.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Ingegneria informatica, Bachelor's degree, Ingegneria informatica at Università degli Studi di Roma Tre
Italian, English
Github Skills (11)
openai-gym10
machine-learning10
python10
reinforcement-learning10
enviroment9
tensorflow9
environ9
pybullet9
robotics9
gymnasium9
algorithm8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nicrusso7/rex-gym
Oct 2019 - May 2021
OpenAI Gym environments for an open-source quadruped robot (SpotMicro)
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:62 commits, 5 PRs, 31 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Nicola primarily contributed to improving the leg model for a galloping gait in the rex-gym environment. Their work involved modifying the `envs/rex_reactive_env.py`, `model/rex.py`, `agents/scripts/configs.py`, and `envs/gym/rex_gym_env.py` files to refine the robot's movement capabilities. These changes involved adjusting motor controls and reward functions, indicating a focus on reinforcement learning and robotics within the OpenAI Gym environment context. Further contributions involved general improvements to the codebase and refactoring.
openai-gymopenai-gym-environmentsroboticstensorflowpython3
nicrusso7/robot-gym
Mar 2021 - Jul 2021
RL applied to robotics.
Contributions:44 commits, 5 PRs, 17 pushes in 3 months
roboticspybulletrlmpcquadruped
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