Ugo Scaiella
Head Of Engineering at SpazioDati srl
Tuscany, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolUgo Scaiella is a Head of Engineering with 11+ years of experience leading and scaling high‑performance software teams, currently managing ~50 engineers at SpazioDati in Tuscany. He blends deep research roots in algorithms, IR and NLP—three years of academic work that produced publications with over 1k citations—with hands‑on product engineering and architecture for production systems. Ugo has built and shipped core products like an entity‑linking API and a news processing/search pipeline used by enterprise customers including Amazon and ING, and he doubled his org while driving >50% margin improvement toward company profitability. Equally comfortable mentoring engineers and aligning execs, product and sales, he is known for turning research-grade techniques into robust, scalable services. His background includes low‑latency trading connectivity and legacy system refactoring, giving him rare fluency across research, distributed systems and operational risk.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea Specialistica (Master Degree), Computer Science, Laurea Specialistica (Master Degree), Computer Science at Università di Pisa
English, Italian
Github Skills (40)
python9
deep-learning8
administration8
machine-learning8
uberjar8
webadmin8
jar8
asynchronous7
tensorflow7
celery7
rabbitmq7
groovy7
task-queue6
gradle-plugin6
proguard6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
SpazioDati/re2-java
Jan 2015 - Oct 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 10 months
SpazioDati/azkaban-groovy-plugin
Apr 2015 - Apr 2018
Plugins for Azkaban workflow manager to run Groovy script locally e remotely
Contributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 13 pushes in 3 years
azkabangroovy
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