Valerio Santarelli
CTO & Co-Founder at OBDA Systems
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolValerio Santarelli is a CTO and co-founder with nine years of experience building commercial solutions that bring cutting-edge semantic technologies and Ontology-Based Data Access (OBDA) from research into production. Based in Rome, he founded OBDA Systems out of Sapienza University to help organizations extract actionable insights from large, complex datasets using ontology-driven representation and reasoning. His background includes a PhD in Computer Engineering and sustained academic collaboration—developing ontology evolution modules, semantic demonstrators, and exploring OBDA applications with Bloomberg—so he bridges rigorous research and pragmatic product delivery. Valerio’s work combines deep expertise in semantic integration with a founder’s focus on usable, scalable systems, making him adept at turning formal models into client-ready information access solutions.
9 years of coding experience
Vienna University of TechnologyMaster's degree, Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Engineering at Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza'Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Engineering at Sapienza Università di RomaComputer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services at Università degli Studi di Trento
Italian, English
Github Skills (16)
ontologies9
owl9
ontology9
graph-drawing8
specification8
visualization6
viewer5
rdf4
network-visualization3
semantic-web1
query-language1
knowledge-graph1
sparql1
query-builder1
querying1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
obdasystems/OBDA-Specifications
Apr 2019 - Oct 2022
Contributions:54 commits, 67 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
obdasystems/monolith-releases
Oct 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:21 releases, 1 branch, 21 tags in 2 years
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