Nicola is an accomplished Data Engineer with over 5 years of experience in a data-driven role including leading teams of data scientists for upday by Samsung. He has a decade of development experience in different areas, including as an expert Ruby on Rails backend developer, Python developer, and mobile development. His expertise includes understanding how the data available to the company can be leveraged for its different problems, from recommendations to advertising, through experiments, analysis, and machine learning.
Partnered closely with business and product teams to identify and prioritize the most important data projects for a fast-growing tech and media company.
Led a team of data scientists and engineers to understand/influence our data architecture, data models, instrumentation, as well as design, develop, and own data pipelines and models that power internal analytics.
Worked on a gender prediction model based on user reading habits, using Python, Scikit-learn, Pandas, pySpark, Tensorflow, etc.
Worked with the team dedicated to content delivery and real-time recommendation engine development, including backend and infrastructure development with on call duty.
Conceived and built the first recommendation system based on ElasticSearch.
Ramped up the whole backend development for the company. The user base came from all Samsung devices (as the app was pre-installed), hence an additional level of complexity was added by having a scalable architecture.
Worked on the development, maintenance, project management, and conception (UX enhancement) of the JustBook iOS App.
Designed and developed the testing layer for the APIs and part of the other modules in the backend (Factory boy).
Extended the mobile APIs. Created a solution to integrate to the current system in order to optimise the server response time and reduce the database load.
