Xavier Gastaldi
Director, Innovation And Transformation, AI Strategy For The Corporate Bank
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolXavier Gastaldi is a director-level innovation and transformation leader with 10+ years of experience applying AI and strategic consulting to corporate banking at Deutsche Bank, currently shaping Generative AI strategy for the Corporate Bank. He blends deep technical credibility—author of the highly cited Shake-Shake regularization paper used across major ML libraries—with practical delivery experience in DLT-based tokenization, digital securities and financial market infrastructure. A former management consultant and project lead, he has repeatedly turned complex programmes into measurable business outcomes, from digitizing assets to operational restructurings that saved costs and mitigated risk. Based in Frankfurt with an MBA from London Business School and an engineering background, he uniquely bridges cutting‑edge research and regulated financial productisation. Not obvious at first glance: his Shake-Shake work not only set records on benchmarks but attracted praise from leading AI figures and enduring industry adoption.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Class of MBA 2011, 2 years, Class of MBA 2011, 2 years at London Business SchoolMSc in Industrial Engineering, 3 years, MSc in Industrial Engineering, 3 years at Arts et Métiers ParisTech - École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers
English, French
Github Skills (47)
portable9
mxnet9
julia9
mutation9
python8
machine-learning8
scala8
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java8
javascript8
dep8
dataflow8
golang7
cntk7
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
xgastaldi/shake-shake
Feb 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:24 commits, 21 pushes, 17 comments in 1 year 8 months
xgastaldi/xgastaldi.github.io
Feb 2024 - Feb 2024
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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