Summary
Roberto Trani is a software engineer and founder with eight years of experience bridging academic research and practical engineering, currently building next-generation search at Seltz. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Università di Pisa and has deep expertise in information retrieval, high-performance computing, algorithms, and machine learning. Roberto has led data and performance marketing teams for large e-commerce operations and founded a consulting firm that helps SMEs with digital transformation and data-driven decision making. His background spans postdoctoral research, applied analytics, bidding automation, and front-end rebuilds—demonstrating an unusual blend of low-level performance thinking and product-focused delivery. Based in Tuscany, he combines rigorous research rigour with hands-on system implementation to optimize search and retrieval at scale. Colleagues describe him as the kind of engineer who moves seamlessly from algorithm design to production tuning.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer science at Università di Pisa
Italian, English