Stefano Baccianella
VP Of Security at Catawiki
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolStefano Baccianella is a seasoned technology leader with 12 years of experience building and securing large-scale platforms, currently serving as VP of Security (and VP of Engineering) at Catawiki in Amsterdam. He has led engineering and security organizations of 50–180+ people across startups and global enterprises, scaling teams, refining delivery processes, and driving cloud cost and reliability improvements. As CTO at Aidence he combined medical-device compliance (ISO27001, QMS) with AI R&D to accelerate lung cancer diagnostics, cutting release cycles from six months to six weeks. His early start coding on a C64 and a PhD in Computer Engineering underpin a rare blend of hands-on technical craft, data-driven product thinking, and strategic leadership. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he improved incident response and reduced outages at scale while recruiting and developing high-performing engineering leaders. Outside the obvious, he has navigated both research-grade text-mining work and production recommender systems, giving him depth across academia and high-velocity commercial engineering.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Università degli Studi di PerugiaPhD Computer Engineering, PhD Computer Engineering at Università di Pisa
English, Italian
Stackoverflow
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42answers
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Github Skills (53)
json10
openai-api10
parser10
python10
ui-components10
machine-learning10
gradio-interface10
webscraping10
llm10
deep-learning10
repair10
data-science9
mistral9
parsing9
ai9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mangiucugna/json_repair
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
A python module to repair invalid JSON, commonly used to parse the output of LLMs
Contributions:95 releases, 1 review, 15 PRs in 1 year 7 months
deep-learninggpt-4jsonllama3llm
mangiucugna/mangiucugna
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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