Pasquale Salza
Senior Platform Engineer
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolPasquale Salza is a senior platform engineer and researcher with 10+ years of experience bridging machine learning, software engineering, and cloud-native systems. He has led and coordinated academic teams at the University of Zurich—advising numerous PhD, MSc, and BSc students—and now applies that research-driven mindset to production platform work at kaiko.ai. His research focuses on developer-assist ML, software engineering practices for ML systems, testing, and evolutionary computation, which informs pragmatic, cost-effective solutions for complex software. A PhD-holder with top academic distinctions and international experience (MIT visiting student, Erasmus), he combines rigorous evaluation with hands-on engineering. Known for mentoring and teaching across levels, he brings a rare mix of academic depth and product-focused execution to platform and ML-driven engineering challenges.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Management & Information Technology, Excellent, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Management & Information Technology, Excellent at Università degli Studi di SalernoVisiting Student, Computer Science, Visiting Student, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyErasmus Student, Computer Science, Erasmus Student, Computer Science at University College Dublin
Italian, English
Github Skills (44)
binaries10
homebrew10
administration10
command-line-tool10
macos10
cli10
java9
kotlin9
docker9
aws-lambda9
protobuf9
refactoring9
shell9
rust8
monorepo8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pasqualesalza/elephant56
Apr 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:3 releases, 17 commits, 19 pushes in 2 years 2 months
pasqualesalza/homebrew-cask
Jan 2017 - Dec 2021
A CLI workflow for the administration of Mac applications distributed as binaries
Contributions:1 push, 6 branches in 4 years 11 months
cliworkflowdistributed-applicationsadministrationbinaries
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