Nicola Sebastianelli
Co-Founder & CTO at Zefi.ai
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolNicola Sebastianelli is a Co-Founder and CTO based in Milan with 11 years of experience building product-focused software and machine learning systems across automotive, luxury, and research environments. He moved from performance ML and research roles at Ferrari and Inria into engineering positions at Renault Sport Racing and Gucci before co-founding Zefi.ai, demonstrating an ability to translate cutting-edge research into production-grade products. His background blends distributed ML optimization, performance engineering, and aerodynamics software development, giving him a rare cross-domain perspective on system performance and model deployment. Educated in computer engineering and ubiquitous networking across institutions in Italy, France, and Sweden, he pairs strong academic foundations with hands-on product delivery. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic technologist who thrives at the intersection of research and product, often surfacing non-obvious performance gains from tight integration of ML and low-level systems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Engineering, Master's degree Computer Engineering at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di BolognaMaster of Research Degree Computer Engineering, Master of Research Degree Computer Engineering at Mid Sweden UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Science - M2 IFI Ubiquitous Networking & Computing, Master of Science - MS Computer Science - M2 IFI Ubiquitous Networking & Computing at Polytech Nice Sophia
Italian, English, French
Github Skills (32)
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information-retrieval5
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image-search5
similarity-search4
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semantic-search4
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nicolasebastianelli/Operating_Systems_M
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:41 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
nicolasebastianelli/Web_Technologies_T
Mar 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:47 commits, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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