Pietro Bolcato
Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Tech Lead) at Snap Inc.
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPietro Bolcato is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer and tech lead with 9 years of experience specializing in multimodal generative AI, combining diffusion models and LLMs to deliver production-ready image, audio, and text generation systems. He has led cross-functional teams and built infrastructure that scaled models to production with large cost and latency improvements—77% cost reduction and an 83% inference speedup at Kittl—while driving measurable product impact like +207% activation and +68% retention. His work spans creative applications (real-time text-to-song pipelines and an AI Lyric Opera) to practical tooling (editable design generation, IPAdapters, and vector DB-based multimodal search), showing a rare mix of research depth and product focus. Based in London, Pietro blends rigorous academic training in autonomous systems with hands-on leadership at Snap and high-growth startups, and he’s known for hiring and growing effective cross-disciplinary teams that turn generative research into user-facing features.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
1° ciclo - Laurea L, Computer Science, 99/110, 1° ciclo - Laurea L, Computer Science, 99/110 at Università di TrentoKTH Royal Institute of TechnologyFirst Year of Master, Autonomous Systems, 9.5/10, First Year of Master, Autonomous Systems, 9.5/10 at Technische Universität BerlinResearch semester, Computer Science, 10/10, Research semester, Computer Science, 10/10 at Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București
English, Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (105)
audio10
flux10
diffusion-models9
image-generation9
deep-learning9
pytorch9
stable-diffusion9
aws9
keras9
hyperparameter-tuning8
api8
closed8
terraform8
terraform-provider8
french8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pietrobolcato/spotify-stable-diffusion-video
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:95 commits, 3 PRs, 72 pushes in 1 month
pietrobolcato/action-read-yaml
Feb 2023 - Mar 2024
Custom github action used to read yaml files, supporting multiple keys and variable replacements
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 9 PRs in 1 year 1 month
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