October 2024 - Present
Head of Technology
Banor Labs | Milan, Italy Current
- Designed and led the development of an upgraded trading infrastructure with agent-based architecture for reduced development times and event-driven processing achieving 1ms orderbook response times.
- Modularized the infrastructure into multiple libraries with comprehensive DevOps practices including GitHub Actions, pre-commit pipelines, and PyPI publishing, significantly streamlining development workflows.
- Introduced Docker containerization and IaaS (Terraform) for automated deployment and management of trading strategies and monitoring dashboards.
- Led the successful deployment of two new trading strategies into production.
- Led the deployment of comprehensive monitoring dashboards for live strategy tracking and market dashboards for DeFi protocol monitoring, enabling real-time decision-making for traders.
February 2024 - October 2024
Senior Quantitative Developer
Banor Labs | Milan, Italy 8 months
- Tested and integrated Large Language Models for sentiment analysis of social media data, transforming unstructured messages into actionable trading signals for strategy optimization.
- Co-led the design and deployment of ML forecasting models to identify optimal capital allocation opportunities across trading strategies, enhancing portfolio performance.
- Conducted comprehensive backtesting of 3 trading strategies and developed strategy-focused Streamlit dashboards for performance visualization, presenting findings to the board of the parent company to support investment decisions.
February 2022 - February 2024
Digital Assets Data Scientist
Banor Labs | Milan, Italy 2 years
- Engineered and implemented a high-frequency trading infrastructure using Python and Cython, capable of seamlessly connecting and executing trades across multiple CeFi and DeFi exchanges
- Developed systematic and algorithmic trading strategies
- Leveraged market and blockchain APIs using Web3.py to integrate diverse data streams into a comprehensive infrastructure utilizing PostgreSQL, S3, and DynamoDB
- Applied advanced analytics leveraging Polars for high-performance data processing, deriving actionable insights and creating presentations that facilitated strategic decision-making
April 2021 - October 2021
Research Intern
Imaging and Vision Laboratory | Milan, Italy Research
- Conducted 6-month research project, benchmarking 9 state-of-the-art deep learning techniques for Speaker Verification tasks using PyTorch.
- Standardized testing and comparison framework ensuring consistent evaluation across all techniques and facilitating accurate performance comparisons.
July 2019 - August 2019
Honorary Research Associate
University of Liverpool | Liverpool, UK Erasmus+
- Received an Erasmus+ scholarship for ML research in Web Ontologies concept rewriting.
September 2019 - October 2021
Master's Degree in Data Science
University of Milano-Bicocca 110/110
- Graduated with maximum grade (110/110)
September 2016 - October 2019
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
University of Bari 110/110 cum
laude
- Graduated with maximum grade and honors (110/110 cum laude)
Achievements & Awards
December 2020
A2A Challenge Winner
1st place
Won the A2A challenge dedicated to solving a Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem to optimize
garbage collection.
July 2019
LoopQ Prize 2019 Winner
3rd place
Awarded in the Loop AI Labs competition with a project on reviews text summarization using Deep
Learning models.
GitHub Repositories
Stranalyzer
A comprehensive Streamlit dashboard for analyzing financial strategies with support for custom
data uploads and portfolio composition.
Python
Streamlit
Pandas
NumPy
BlockchainPype
BlockchainPype is a Python library for interacting with multiple blockchain networks, providing
unified interfaces for various blockchain operations.
Python
Web3
Blockchain
DeFi
NetworkPype
NetworkPype is a Python library for building efficient network communication pipelines,
supporting both REST and WebSocket protocols with built-in rate limiting and time
synchronization.
Python
WebSocket
REST API
Networking
ProcessPype
ProcessPype is a framework for building and managing an application that is composed of
services, providing robust process management capabilities.
Python
Microservices
Framework
Architecture
FinancePype
FinancePype is a framework for managing trading operations across multiple platforms with a
focus on reliability and consistency.
Python
Trading
Finance
Framework
AgentsPype
AgentsPype provides a flexible and robust framework for building agents that interact with the
world, supporting complex agent-based systems.
Python
AI Agents
Framework
Architecture
Speaker Recognition Benchmark
A benchmark analysis of some Speaker Verification techniques based on Deep Learning, featuring
comprehensive evaluation of state-of-the-art models.
Python
PyTorch
Deep Learning
CNN
SC3-CVRP
A Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem solution using shape controlled clustering and
Christofides routing algorithm - winner of the A2A Challenge.
Python
Clustering
Optimization
Algorithms