Lou Caraig
Staff Software Engineer - AI at Zuma ⚡
Florence, Tuscany, Italy
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Top SchoolLou Caraig is a Staff Software Engineer focused on AI with 12 years building scalable data infrastructure, engineering-intelligence platforms, and production agent systems. He’s shipped real-time pipelines that processed billions of events, led engineering teams to deliver Gartner-recognized analytics products, and prototyped early LLM-based agents using ReAct and self-critique loops. At the Linux Foundation he directed a cross-functional team delivering project health analytics across 15,000+ repos, and he contributes to well-known open-source projects like kafka-python and pydruid improving Kafka producer semantics and connector test coverage. Now at Zuma he’s unifying channel-specific AI into a reusable, channel-agnostic agent core while making conversational scoring and evaluation first-class platform features. Comfortable moving between hands-on engineering, architecture, and product strategy, he pairs deep systems experience (Kafka, Druid, Go, Python) with practical ML/agent integrations and a track record of turning prototypes into production. Based in Florence, he combines startup grit with open-source humility and a knack for shipping robust, measurable AI behaviors.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PNI - piano nazionale informatica, PNI - piano nazionale informatica at Liceo scientifico statale - L. Da VinciBachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science, Computer Science at Università degli Studi di Firenze
Italian, English, Filipino
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Github Skills (23)
pytest10
messaging10
python10
testing10
kafka10
message-system10
message-handler10
message-bus10
messagebox10
test-automation10
druid10
concurrency9
ssh9
gitlab9
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
druid-io/pydruid
Sep 2015 - Jul 2016
A Python connector for Druid
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:18 commits, 7 PRs, 15 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Lou primarily focused on improving the quality and reliability of the `pydruid` library through comprehensive testing. Their contributions include fixing code style issues (flake8 and pep8 errors) and ensuring that the testing suite could handle optional dependencies. They added new tests for aggregators, filtered aggregators, and the filters module. Furthermore, the user handled dimension building in the PyDruid client and created tests for dimensions module.
python
dpkp/kafka-python
Nov 2014 - Nov 2014
Python client for Apache Kafka
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Lou made several contributions related to message handling and the Kafka producer in the `kafka-python` repository. They added functionality to handle message keys within the producer, ensuring proper type handling and message creation. The user also modified producer internals by adding a private method that accepts kwargs and updating tests to reflect the added key support. These changes enhance the producer's flexibility and robustness when interacting with Kafka topics.
apache-kafkapythonkafka
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