Summary
Riccardo Malavolti is a Machine Learning Engineer and MLOps specialist with nine years of experience delivering production-grade AI systems across computer vision, LLMs, RAG, and distributed IoT. He leads end-to-end projects at Rogue Waves AI, translating business needs into scalable, reproducible pipelines using Python, FastAPI, Docker, Git, MLflow, and DVC while championing CI/CD and observability for low-latency inference. Comfortable with multi-GPU training and cloud-native deployments on AWS and Azure, he balances managed services with architectural choices that avoid vendor lock-in. Riccardo has managed dozens of European client engagements, driving both technical delivery and knowledge transfer to make teams more autonomous. Pragmatic and anti-bloat by temperament, he focuses on robust, maintainable systems that prioritize performance and operational reliability. He also brings hands-on firmware and IoT experience from earlier roles, giving him a systems-level perspective on edge-to-cloud ML deployments.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea Magistrale LM, Ingegneria informatica, Laurea Magistrale LM, Ingegneria informatica at Università degli Studi di Firenze
Isitituto di Istruzione Superiore "Ernesto Balducci", Pontassieve