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AI/NLP Engineer | CTO | Facilitator | Mentor | Coach

Berlin, Deutschland
Weltweit
MsC. in Computer Engineering
Berlin, Deutschland
Weltweit
MsC. in Computer Engineering

Profilanlagen

Alessandro Pedori-CV-2024.pdf

Skills

InnovationAPIsAgile MethodologieKünstliche IntelligenzAlgorithmusUnterrichtenAutomatisierungBauvorschriftenCloud ComputingBeratungDatenvisualisierungSkalierbarkeitIntelligente SystemePythonMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingOpen SourcePredictive AnalyticsVisualisierungPrototypingCloud-ServicesTechnische LeitungEinführung Neuer TechnologienAusbildungsaktivitätenWorkflowsChatbotsData ScienceLarge Language ModelsCoaching und MentoringTeam ManagementProjektlieferungGPT
I am a full-stack AI, NLP, and ML engineer, consultant, and architect with several years of experience solving problems with AIs, and building the code around it, mainly in Python. I have served as a CTO, demonstrating my strong leadership and technical expertise in guiding teams and projects. I love helping people understand the limits of current systems, triaging what to implement first, building code, teaching, consulting, mentoring, and coaching. Above all, I am passionate about how technology can empower humans to shine.

My expertise spans a wide range of critical areas, including:

* Artificial Intelligence (AI): Developing intelligent systems that can learn and adapt.
* * Machine Learning (ML): Implementing algorithms and models to enable predictive analytics and automated decision-making.
* Natural Language Processing (NLP): Enhancing the interaction between humans and machines through language understanding.
* Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT): Utilizing models like GPT-3 and GPT-4 for advanced text generation and conversational AI.
* Large Language Models (LLMs): Leveraging the capabilities of large-scale models for various AI applications.
* Technical Leadership: Leading teams and projects, providing vision and direction for technological advancements.
* Cloud Platforms: Deploying and managing applications on cloud services for scalability and reliability.
* AI Design: Crafting AI solutions that are both innovative and practical.
* Agile Project Management: Ensuring efficient and effective project delivery through agile methodologies.
* Coaching and Mentoring: Guiding individuals and teams to achieve their full potential.
* Facilitation and Workshop Facilitation: Leading workshops and sessions to foster collaboration and learning.
* Consulting: Providing expert advice to help organizations navigate the complexities of AI and technology adoption.
* API Integration: Connecting various systems and applications to create seamless workflows.
* Data Visualization and Processing: Transforming data into actionable insights through visualization and processing techniques.

With extensive experience in startups and initiating projects, I excel at turning ideas into reality, from concept to deployment. My background in early-stage startups has honed my ability to build Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) and rapidly prototype solutions, ensuring that projects start strong and maintain momentum. My passion for technology is driven by its potential to empower and enable individuals to achieve more, making a meaningful impact on both their personal and professional lives.

Erfahrung

Berufserfahrungmehr als 10 Jahre
Freelancer seit2012

Sprachen

DeutschverhandlungssicherEnglischverhandlungssicherFranzösischgutItalienischMuttersprachePortugiesischGrundkenntnisseSchwedischGrundkenntnisseSpanischverhandlungssicher

Projekthistorie

Co-Founder

IFS Collective

Pharma und Medizintechnik

< 10 Mitarbeiter

  • Co-created the offering of the company, shaping the goals and online presence.
  • Envisioned, prepared, and facilitated online unconferences, adapting the software and tools to the online setting.
  • Ideated, developed, and tested apps using AI to support IFS and other talk therapies.

CTO

EnterpriseAI

Internet und Informationstechnologie

< 10 Mitarbeiter

ML/NLP engineering
CTO for EnterpriseAI (2020-21)
Architecture of an NLP based solutions, dealing with data gathering and preprocessing,
generating embedding, testing models and assumptions. Hosting workshops, training, teaching.
Gathering requirements from customers.
Tools: Spacy, Gensim, SkiKit Learn, PyTorch

Lead ML Engineer

Klarna Bank
Building infrastructure on AWS, building and securing tools to enable data scientists to be
faster, packaging of models, CI/DP

Senior Backend Developer

orderbird AG
Total revamping of the platform. Among the rest: architectural consideration for swarms of
devices, moving the backend from Python to Java, creating a model for a REST interface,
adapting CouchBase database usage and synchronization.

Senior NLP Engineer

Senior ML Engineer for Expertlead, in a project for Miele & Cie. KG (name and some details
still covered by NDA) (2019-20)
Co-designing and building architecture of microservices serving different ML models for: shape
recognition, categorization, text detection with subsequent OCR with optimization. Some DevOps
work, setting up the architecture for other developers and for remote access. Some image (pre)
processing.

Consultant for ML, DL, and NLP for several projects, helping to define requirements,
feasibility, pipelines (2018-20)

Senior NLP Engineer (2018for Expertlead in a project for Retresco GmbH, involving skills for
the Magenta platform.
Extraction and organization from wikidata, NLP for disambiguation, parallelization for
performance. Architecture restructuring.

Lead developer/architect for an Alexa Skill for CodeControl: I designed the system from the
first idea, managed and lead a small (4pp) team. (2018)
We both had to use NLP on the inventory to extract the correct information, and for the
interaction.

Lead developer/architect

ONSEI GmbH
Lead of a small team (3pp). (2018)

Online reviews/data extraction and analysis for several startup in Berlin (2016-20)

RECENT/CURRENT PROJECTS (2018-2020, continued):
Teaching/public speaking/facilitating (selected)
* Planned and taught a 3 days workshop, "From beginner Python to implementing advanced ML
pipelines", covering up to fine-tuning BERT and recent CNN architectures.
* Organized and facilitated a small "unconference about freelancing" for CodeControl.
* Data Science Retreat Berlin: I taught a 2 days class on real world data gathering, data
extraction, web scraping, practical NLP, hand on deep learning:
* Taught advanced masterclasses in applied NLP for companies
* Ran workshops and organized unconferences in the direction of "body awareness and
relationship skills for geeks", under the umbrella project "body for brainiacs"
body4brainiacs.com (website sadly really under developed)
* Prepared some sections for a master class on Computer Security for Nuclear plants (my
specific areas were: Hacking and Cryptography)
* Organizer of community hackathons

PAST HIGHLIGHTS
Founder and developer of the Open Speed Dating project, March 2016 - end of 2017
Developing a personal project to facilitate speed matching/networking events.
On the technical side, it involves:
* back end development (Python + Flask) of a flexible matching algorithm for arbitrary
identities
* ReST API development and parallel processing

Research Engineer

Aaron GmBH
NLP and Machine Learning
Applying NLP and ML techniques to automate customer support tasks
* data analysis, clean up, normalization
* open source libraries, mostly Python based (scikit-learn, NLTK, spacy, etc.)
* topic modeling and discovery

Senior Engineer

ÜberResearch GmbH
Big Data engineering, mostly with Python, on *nix environment.
* data retrieval, QA, scraping, parsing, uploading
* infrastructure development, mostly on massively concurrently models with 0MQ
* high availability high parallel distributed systems
* REST API development and support
* knowledge extraction
* intensive use and automation of the AWS platform, and Docker
* full stack development, mostly Python on Pyramid/Flask with a Postresql back-end.

Technical Consultant

Acrolinx
* Workflow/process design, optimization and automation
* Project management
* Natural language processing development and debugging
* Programming and scripting to troubleshoot problems, create and deploying solutions
* Third level support: issue investigation, development of workarounds and root cause
identification
* Pre-deployment and testing of new technologies, NLP based and Machine Translation based

Localization Engineer / Internationalization Specialist

Snap-On Diagnostic
Processing of 30+ million words a day
* Management of remote development, translation/content production, QA testing
* Pre-localization, post-localization and processing
* Liaising with language service providers and QA testers, query research and troubleshooting
* Coordination with Chinese reverse engineering and QA teams
* Building and testing of Machine Translation systems to integrate with the work of human
translators

Language Technologies Engineer

Apple Inc.
Software engineering specific to translation and localization of Siri (user interfaces and
back-end) into Italian.
The tasks involved required knowledge of natural language modeling, software development, and
techniques of translation, constantly switching between programming, translating, testing the
results, and managing translators.
*natural language parsing, production, regex design and optimization
*mapping of a natural language system from EN_US to IT_IT and IT_CH, coordinating with work on
French, Spanish and German
*reverse engineering based localization on bleeding edge systems.

FIRST STEPS
Freelance web-designer and webmaster (1997-2004)
Worked on several platforms, started using WordPress when it came out as version 1.0, used
MobileType, Joomla, Drupal, fought CSS and JavaScript in the browser wars. That taught me try
to avoid frontend web development when possible.

Web editor

Yahoo! Inc
Collateral work on data analysis and datamining, using personally developed tools in perl and
Javascript: moved the system from occasional manual checks to regular, automated and graphical
reports, improving efficacy of the classification effort.
Worked on WAP services before smartphones. Cooperated with marketing and sales for comparisons
with competitors and working out the strengths of the brand.

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