Pasquale Vazzana
Head Of Research And Development at Marshall Wace
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorPasquale Vazzana is a seasoned technology leader with 13 years of experience now heading Research and Development at Marshall Wace in London. He progressed through roles from IT developer to Head of Big Data and now leads AI-focused R&D, combining hands-on engineering with strategic product delivery. Pasquale’s career spans public sector and entrepreneurship—he founded and led Medialeader for over a decade—bringing deep experience in building scalable systems and data platforms. An active open-source contributor, he implemented zero-watch AngularJS bindings and enhanced OAuth2 JavaScript tooling, showing a pragmatic focus on performance and integration. He is currently designing the AI systems intended to automate parts of his own role, blending curiosity with a systems-thinking approach. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he bridges low-level frontend optimizations and large-scale data architectures to drive production-ready innovation.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (16)
plugin-development10
directive10
package-development10
directives10
javascript10
api10
front-end-development10
drupal-module10
api-design10
angularjs10
flickr10
oauth9
github-repos9
git-repository9
html9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Pasvaz/bindonce
May 2013 - Dec 2014
Zero watches binding for AngularJs
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:63 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Pasquale primarily worked on the `bindonce` directive, a zero-watch binding solution for AngularJS. Their contributions involved implementing new directives, improving the controller logic, and integrating features like `bo-if`, `bo-src-i`, `bo-href-i`, and `bo-switch`. They addressed various issues related to scope handling, transclusion, and promise resolution, improving the directive's overall functionality and reliability.
zerowatchesangularjsangularbinding
MrSwitch/hello.js
Jun 2013 - Jun 2013
A Javascript RESTFUL API library for connecting with OAuth2 services, such as Google+ API, Facebook Graph and Windows Live Connect
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 4 days
Contributions summary:Pasquale contributed to the development and enhancement of a JavaScript library for interacting with OAuth2 services. They primarily focused on adding new modules, particularly for Flickr, and made improvements to the existing modules. Additionally, the user fixed issues and made modifications to the project's build process, including changes to how callbacks are handled and integration with the demo application. This involved updating core library files as well as demo and configuration files.
apigoogle-apiwindowsrestfuljavascript
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