Experience

Amazon

Applied Scientist · Full-time
November 2021 — Present
  • Worked on end-to-end research to production of multi-speaker multilingual text-to-speech cloud and edge models
  • (2021-22) Released Alexa male voices in more than 10 locales (see this article as an example for it-IT)
  • (2022-23) Contributed to the research of high-performance on-device models operating in a cross-lingual fashion and developed more than 60 voice models that are currently deployed in BMW and Mini cars (see this article and this video)
  • (2023-24) Led a team of 3 scientists for delivering an LLM-based speech generation solution tailored for the ads use case
  • (2024-25) Trained multi-modal LLMs for the release of Alexa+ (see this article) and Amazon Nova Sonic (see this article)
  • Published 3 peer-reviewed papers (2 as second author and 1 as first author)

PythonPyTorchAWSTensorFlowMXNet

Amazon

Applied Scientist · Internship
February 2021 — August 2021
  • Trained forecasting ensemble models (random forest and boosted trees) on HR metrics like attendance and absenteeism
  • Implemented predictive models to inform warehouse capacity planning based on regional COVID-19 outbursts

PythonSKLearnAWS

Quid Informatica

Software Developer · Freelance/Part-time
February 2020 — September 2020
  • Developed 3 production-grade Python micro-services working in banking environments, to classify and extract text from identity documents (see the product)
  • Implemented NER (Named Entity Recognition) techniques to parse raw OCR results
  • Trained a text classification model to categorize financial documents

PythonOpenCVFlaskTornadoGunicornspaCyfastTextGCPAzure

QI-Lab

Software Developer · Internship/Freelance
March 2019 — October 2019
  • Developed a library for OCR applications on identity documents
  • Implemented edge/text detection techniques and custom image binarization algorithms as pre-processing steps to improve OCR results (read the blog post)

PythonOpenCVDjangoTesseractDocker

Continental

Software Developer · Freelance
January 2019 — September 2019
  • Developed a production-grade modular GUI working in industrial settings
  • The solution is currently deployed and used by human operators to log visual inspection results of mechanical pieces produced by a factory automation machine

PythonQt

EasyClaims

Backend Developer · Freelance
January 2018 — March 2018
  • Implemented backend features for an insurance claims video verification interface

PHPMySQL

Develer

Software Developer · Internship
June 2015 — June 2015
  • Designed and developed a library and GUI to read, generate and print barcodes during my 4th year in high school

PythonQt

Education

Master's degree in AI @ UNIBO

2019 — 2022

Grade
110/110 with honours

Thesis
Conditioning text-to-speech synthesis on dialect accent: a case study

Topics
  • Statistical, logical and mathematical foundations of AI
  • Machine Learning, Deep Learning and big data applications
  • Knowledge Representation and declarative/functional programming
  • Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing

PythonSKLearn/PyTorch/KerasPrologScalaSparkMiniZinc/Z3

Bachelor's degree in CS @ UNIFI

2016 — 2019

Grade
110/110 with honours

Thesis
Refinement of a Python library to perform OCR on identity documents

Topics
  • Mathematical and logical foundations of computer science
  • Advanced programming techniques and software design principles
  • In-depth computer architectures

CJavaMySQLPython

High-school diploma in ICT @ I.T.S. Tullio Buzzi

2011 — 2016

Grade
100 / 100

Thesis
Implementation of a C++ holographic experience

Topics
  • Network systems
  • Computer architectures
  • Programming basics

CC++JavaPHPMySQLJavascriptHTMLCSS

Websites

tognonishop.com

Website administrator · Freelance
April 2020 — August 2020

Project
Fashion (shoes) e-commerce website

WordpressWoocommerce

studio54italy.it

Website administrator · Freelance
March 2020 — October 2020

Project
Textile catalog website

WordpressWoocommerce

loscoiattolofirenze.it

Website administrator · Freelance
March 2020 — June 2020

Project
Fashion (clothes) e-commerce website

WordpressWoocommerce

walterquiet.com

Website administrator · Freelance
December 2018 — June 2020

Project
Photography portfolio website

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