Andrea Giarduz
Software Engineer
I solve problems by building backend systems, and I love finding ways to weave AI into them.
Off the clock, you'll find me out on a run, doing street photography, or chasing down good tunes.
open to new opportunities, all around Europe
Experience
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Jun. 2023 — Present
Chief Technology Officer, Founding Engineer
Zite AI · Chicago, IL
Built and deployed production-ready deep learning models for health analytics, from the underlying data pipeline to the APIs serving them. As primary engineer on a 2-person team, helped raise $400K in funding and close a $120K/yr enterprise contract.
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Jan. 2022 — Jun. 2023
Research Assistant
University of Illinois Chicago · Chicago, IL
Designed and validated an online algorithm for cloud resource scheduling, work sponsored by an NSF grant on algorithmic and market design challenges in cloud computing.
Education
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May 2023
M.S. Computer Science — Double Degree
UIC University of Illinois Chicago · Chicago, IL
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May 2023
M.S. Computer Science and Engineering — Double Degree
POLIMI Politecnico di Milano · Milan, Italy
Cum laude
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Sep. 2020
B.S. Engineering of Computing Systems
POLIMI Politecnico di Milano · Milan, Italy
Skills
stack --list
Projects
A React Native mobile app to manage and share users' paid subscriptions, with a Firebase backend built on Node.js Cloud Functions and Firestore.
React Native · Node.js · Firebase
Evaluated 3 supervised machine learning techniques to statically detect malware, analyzing 19,000 executable samples across 70 header-derived features.
Python · scikit-learn · Machine Learning
Built a semi-automated framework with Huawei Research Zurich to detect performance bottlenecks in architectural configurations, validated on an out-of-order ARM core across 46 synthetic benchmarks.
Python · Pandas · gem5