Summary
Lucas Casagrande is a Senior Software Development Engineer specializing in Edge AI/ML with 11 years of experience, currently enabling deployment of large language models on edge devices at Amazon through compression, knowledge distillation, and large-scale training. Based in Seattle, he combines a methodical, autodidactic approach with hands-on research-to-production experience, bridging academic rigor from a master’s program with practical nanodegree training. He mentors aspiring data and AI professionals via SC Data & Analytics, translating cloud and ML concepts into career-boosting skills. His work focuses on making heavyweight models run efficiently under resource constraints, an area that demands both algorithmic creativity and engineering discipline. Outside core engineering, he brings a knack for extracting actionable insights from data and for simplifying complex model optimizations into deployable pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor, Bachelor at UNISOCIESC - Universidade Sociedade Educacional de Santa Catarina
Nanodegree, Nanodegree at Udacity
Master's degree, Master's degree at Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina
Engenharias Industriais, Engenharias Industriais at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Portuguese, English, Spanish