Romano Foti
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at GitHub
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolRomano Foti is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a decade of experience applying data science and ML to product and research problems. At GitHub since 2017 he has advanced from Senior Data Scientist to senior ML engineer, bringing production ML expertise across Python, Spark, and cloud platforms. His background is unusually interdisciplinary: a PhD in civil engineering and years as an academic researcher studying hydrology and ecosystems inform his probabilistic, systems-level approach to risk assessment and modeling. Romano has also built end-to-end ML prototypes and tools (e.g., auction-probability app from his Insight fellowship) and run his own data consulting and construction ventures, demonstrating both technical breadth and entrepreneurial drive. Colleagues value his fast-learning habit, ability to cross domains, and ease interacting with diverse teams to translate complex analyses into actionable decisions.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Ph.D., Civil Engineering at Colorado State UniversityM.S., Experimental Sciences, M.S., Experimental Sciences at Scuola Superiore di CataniaB.S. + M.S. equivalent - Civil Engineering, Civil Engineering - Hydraulics, B.S. + M.S. equivalent - Civil Engineering, Civil Engineering - Hydraulics at Università di Catania
English, Italian, Spanish, Catalan
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Github Skills (24)
pytorch10
python10
data-science9
machine-learning9
tensorflow9
deep-learning9
jax8
displays7
neural-network7
papermill6
nteract5
jupyter4
matplotlib4
github-pages3
react3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
romanofoti/ds_blog
Jan 2017 - Jan 2022
GH pages repository for DS blog
Contributions:2 PRs, 31 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years
aplhugojekyll
romanofoti/CancerStudy
Oct 2015 - Apr 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 7 months
instancesclinical-dataclinicalmachine-learningcancer
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