Nicola Bernini, PhD

Software Engineer

United States19 yrs 10 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Over 15 years of experience in software engineering.
  • Expertise in machine learning and computer vision.
  • Core contributor to multiple DeFi products.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Robotics expert with extensive experience in software engineering and machine learning.

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Skills

Core Skills

FinanceQuantitative FinanceComputer VisionMachine Learning

Other Skills

.NETAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)AndroidArtificial IntelligenceBackend DevelopmentCC#C++CSSComplex SystemsData ScienceDatabasesFinancial AccountingFinancial Modeling

About

Personal Website https://nicolabernini.github.io/ Have a look at mi GitHub for more https://github.com/NicolaBernini +15 years of professional experience. Recently working with: C, C++11/14, STL, Boost, Python, Javascript, Java, ... Embedded Low Latency Dev Machine Learning / Deep Learning applied to Computer Vision and Robotics DevOps: Docker Side Projects + Previous Experience: Golang, Docker, Kubernetes, Blockchain,... Mostly active on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NicolaBernini Relevant Repos Solutions to Programming Challenges in different languages (C++, Python, Java, ...) https://github.com/NicolaBernini/CPPSnippets1 Data Science related experiments https://github.com/NicolaBernini/DataScience_Examples1 Blockchain experiments (Solidity, ...) https://github.com/NicolaBernini/BlockchainAnalysis Medium Blog https://medium.com/@nicolabernini_63880 Selected Articles https://medium.com/@nicolabernini_63880/in-1-min-q-learning-f1bd9d30d24d https://towardsdatascience.com/artifician-neural-networks-and-neuroscience-e4852b10d7a9 https://aboveintelligent.com/ml-cnn-translation-equivariance-and-invariance-da12e8ab7049 Math StackExchange https://math.stackexchange.com/users/186092/nicola-bernini Physics StackExchnge https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/104494/nicola-bernini

Experience

Undisclosed

Sr. Software Engineer - Quantitative

Nov 2024Present · 1 yr 4 mos · DeFi

  • Quantitative DeFi Strategies

Lemma labs

DeFi Financial Engineer | Quant (Solidity, Scala, Python, Accounting Systems, Finance)

Feb 2022Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Remote · Remote

  • Foundational Engineer (first non C level engineer hired here) and core contributor for all the 3 products Lemma built
  • 1) USDL: stablecoin based on a delta neutral portfolio
  • 2) Lemmaswap: spot swap DEX
  • 3) Infinity Pool: derivatives
  • Responsibilities
  • Protocol: Core Dev, Solidity
  • Financial Modeling (Python, Scala)
  • Backend (Scala)
  • Hiring, onboarding and coaching
  • Tools (Scala)
FinanceFinancial AccountingQuantitative FinanceSolidityScalaPython

Framework ventures

Quant Trader - StatArb

Sep 2021Feb 2022 · 5 mos · Remote

  • Quant: mostly StatArb so Mean Reversion, leading and lagging assets, ...
  • Engineering: Building the backtesting platform in Julia, Flashbots connector, ...

Zipline

Senior Perception Engineer

Feb 2021Dec 2021 · 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Projects
  • Design and development of a new vision-based perception system for the Zips
  • MLOps infra development
  • Neural models porting to embedded platforms
  • Responsibilities
  • ML Research (literature review)
  • Software Engineering (C++, Python, ...)
  • Data science

Uber

Senior Autonomy Engineer

Sep 2019Feb 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

  • Reinforcement Learning (paper published at HSCC 2021)
  • Computer Vision and Continual Learning (paper submitted to a major conference, under review)
  • GAN for Dataset Augmentation and Domain Adaptation
  • Safe Programming Languages
  • Autonomous Robots
  • C++, Python, Scala, Pytorch, TF
  • About Uber Elevate
  • Helping to build the future of urban mobility
  • https://www.uber.com/it/it/elevate/
  • Vision
  • https://www.uber.com/us/en/elevate/vision/

Eu funded project (pon)

Expert

May 2019Feb 2020 · 9 mos · Greater Parma Metropolitan Area

  • Fighting Fake News - EU Funded Project at local high school (Liceo G. Marconi - Parma)
  • Explaining technological threats like DeepFake (and GAN related ones)

Ambarella inc

Staff Algorithm Engineer

Oct 2016Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Greater Parma Metropolitan Area

  • Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Autonomous Cars
  • Efficient computer vision algorithms implementation on Ambarella SoCs

University of parma

Research Teaching Assistant

Jan 2013Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

  • Following Courses:
  • Foundation of Programming (C, C++)
  • Computer Vision
  • Computer Architecture

Vislab srl - ambarella inc

Senior Algo/SW Engineer

Jan 2012Oct 2016 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

  • Main
  • ARM, C/C++, Multithreading, Socket
  • ASIC / ARM, RTOS / Linux (User and Kernel level), distributed processing, multithreading, low latency
  • Keras and Tensorflow
  • Other
  • OpenCV, ROS
  • Project Management

Undisclosed

Co Founder and CTO

Jan 2011Jan 2012 · 1 yr · Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

  • CTO
  • Python, C++
  • Facebook API
  • Heroku

Sidel

R&D Project Leader and Software PM - Backend Developer

Jan 2008Jan 2011 · 3 yrs

  • Machinery Data Acquisition and Analysis System
  • Architect
  • Developer: Java, PHP, HTML+JS
  • Project Management

Pizzarotti s.p.a.

Software Analyst, Backend Developer

Jan 2007Dec 2007 · 11 mos · Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

  • PHP:
  • Design, Development and Debug of Application built with the following technologies
  • Flex, PHP, AJAX, MySQL
  • J2EE:
  • Design, Development, Debug of JSR-168 Portlet for
  • WebSphere and Liferay Portal
  • Database:
  • Lotus Domino
  • Security.
  • Pentesting in Banking Environments

Fab engineering

Software Analyst and Developer

Jun 2006Dec 2007 · 1 yr 6 mos · Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

  • Design, Development and Debug of Visual Basic 6 Application
  • for Mechanical Dimensioning

Cti services

Software Analyst and Developer

May 2001Jun 2002 · 1 yr 1 mo · Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

  • ActiveX Software Development for Phone Traffic Management Applications used in Call Centers

Education

Università degli Studi di Parma

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Jan 2012Jan 2015

Università degli Studi di Milano

Computer Forensics e Investigazioni Digitali — Computer Forensics

Jan 2011Jan 2011

Università degli Studi di Parma

Bachelor (Full Marks) — Physics

Jan 2008Jan 2011

Università degli Studi di Parma

Master Degree (Full Marks) — Computer Science Engineering

Jan 1999Jan 2005

Liceo Scientifico

Maturità Scientifica — Maturità Scientifica

Jan 1993Jan 1998

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