Summary
Valentina Rho is a seasoned software engineering lead with 13 years of experience, currently overseeing Recruiting Technology and People Systems at Bending Spoons in Turin. She blends hands-on backend development and team leadership across multiple internal domains at Bending Spoons, having progressed through roles in user acquisition technology and platform engineering. Her background includes research-focused positions at IBM Research where she led AI-for-health projects, contributed to scientific publications and patents, and collaborated closely with Watson Health on extracting structured knowledge for fraud investigations. Comfortable bridging research and production, she has also worked on mission-critical systems for the ExoMars rover control center and earlier academic projects in data mining and NLP. Known for a determined, detail-oriented approach, she pairs strong engineering craftsmanship with a track record of translating research insights into practical, deployable systems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
"Michele Buniva" High School
Master's degree Informatica, Master's degree Informatica at Università degli Studi di Torino
Italian, English, French