Simone Francia
AI Engineer at Musixmatch
Casalgrande, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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Top SchoolSimone Francia is an AI Engineer with 10 years of experience building and deploying production-ready machine learning and NLP systems, currently driving model development and inference pipelines at Musixmatch. He specializes in lyrics-focused NLP and deep learning models (BERT, ELMo, PyTorch/TensorFlow) and pairs research-oriented model work with robust MLOps—Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, and AWS/Azure services—to ship scalable inference containers. His background includes computer vision research for action classification and hands-on dataset creation, reflecting a pragmatic, learning-by-doing approach. Based in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, Simone blends academic computer engineering training with a strong operational mindset, favoring shipping working solutions over perfection.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Dipartimento di Ingegneria "Enzo Ferrari" Modena
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (133)
python10
representations10
deep-learning10
speech10
tensorflow-model10
pre-trained-model10
multimodal10
audio10
transformer10
nlp10
artificial-intelligence10
natural-language-understanding10
google10
natural-language-processing10
speech-to-text10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
simonefrancia/SpaceJam
Mar 2019 - Dec 2020
SpaceJam: a Dataset for Basketball Action Recognition
Contributions:14 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
action-recognition
musixmatchresearch/umberto
Jan 2020 - Mar 2020
UmBERTo: an Italian Language Model trained with Whole Word Masking.
Contributions:20 commits, 20 pushes, 8 comments in 1 month
language-model
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