Valerio De Carolis
Principal ML Engineer at Apple
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolValerio De Carolis is a Principal ML Engineer in San Francisco with 13 years of experience building intelligent and autonomous systems across consumer and industrial domains. He blends deep academic training (PhD in Robotics and Autonomous Systems) with hands-on delivery at Apple and Lyft, driving on-device ML, distributed AI workloads, and embedded diagnostics for autonomous robots and self-driving vehicles. Known for leading engineering teams from research to production, he focuses on decision-making under uncertainty, planning systems, and pragmatic architecture that balances performance with deployability. Valerio’s career spans robotics startups, university research, and large-scale platform teams, giving him a rare fluency in both low-level embedded constraints and scalable ML infrastructure. He often bridges product and research, shipping solutions that make agentic and on-device AI practical in real-world systems.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh CampusMaster Degree Telecommunications Engineering, Master Degree Telecommunications Engineering at Sapienza Università di RomaBusiness Startup, Business Startup at InnovAction LabHigh School Diploma Scientific High School, High School Diploma Scientific High School at Liceo Scientifico Vito Volterra
Italian, English
Github Skills (11)
arff8
relational-algebra8
matlab7
reader-writer6
writer-tools6
reader5
robotics3
compiler3
ros3
ntpd2
reinforcement-learning1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
decabyte/arff_matlab
Mar 2013 - Mar 2015
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 2 years
matlabarffreader-writerreaderwriter
decabyte/saetta_energy
Aug 2014 - Mar 2016
Contributions:144 commits in 1 year 7 months
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