Carmine Paolino

CEO

Berlin, Berlin, Germany15 yrs 8 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Built RubyLLM, a leading Ruby library for LLMs.
Co-founded Freshflow, saving millions for European retailers.
Mentored teams at The Alan Turing Institute on data science.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Retail Tech expert with strong data science and AI capabilities.

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Logic ProBig DataAlgorithmsComputer VisionData AnalysisLaTeXSQLUnixOpen SourceGitDockerAmazon Web Services (AWS)Pandas (Software)TensorFlowMXNet

About

I wrote my first scripts at 5 to automate launching games. Been building things ever since. Right now I'm building RubyLLM, the most popular Ruby library for working with LLMs. 3,7k+ stars, 5M+ downloads, used by teams that switched from Python and aren't going back. I also run Chat with Work, an AI tool that lets you talk to your actual work data. Before that I co-founded Freshflow: AI that tells supermarkets how much fresh produce to order so less of it ends up in the bin. Scaled to major European retailers, millions in savings. Started in open source as a teenager running the Italian Gentoo Linux community. CS at University of Bologna (published with Springer on large-scale social network analysis). AI at VU Amsterdam, combining deep learning with music under a student of Geoffrey Hinton. Data science at OLX (ML systems at billions-of-predictions-per-day scale), Capgemini, and the Alan Turing Institute. Outside of code: house and disco music as Crimson Lake, Floppy Disco in Berlin, photography

Experience

15 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 10 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 7 mos

Current Experience

Chat with work

Founder and CEO

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos

Building an AI tool that lets you talk to your actual work data. Google Drive, Slack, Gmail, Calendar, Basecamp, Nextcloud, and more, all through one conversation.

Freshflow

Co-Founder and CTO

Jan 2021 – Sep 2024 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Berlin, Germany · Remote

Built an AI system that tells supermarkets how much fresh produce to order. Less waste, full shelves, millions in savings for retailers across Europe.
Store managers used to guess based on weather, holidays, and gut feeling. We replaced that with ML.

Entrepreneur first

Founder in Residence

Sep 2020 – Feb 2021 · 5 mos · Berlin, Germany

Part of a cohort of 50 building startups from scratch. This is where Freshflow started.

The alan turing institute

Technical Mentor, Data Science for Social Good

Jun 2020 – Sep 2020 · 3 mos

Mentored two teams applying data science to social impact problems.

Olx group

3 roles

Senior Data Scientist @ OLX^2

Jan 2020 – Jun 2020 · 5 mos

Prosus Classifieds' moonshot team. Taught an AI course, ran user and market research, designed and developed a prototype new feature, lead the data team, supervised a master's thesis on out-of-distribution detection.

Senior Data Scientist

Promoted

Oct 2019 – Aug 2020 · 10 mos

Built and shipped ML systems at scale: image quality assessment, listing quality scoring, recommendation systems serving millions of users. Billions of predictions per day.
Keynoted at IFIP WCC 2018. Spoke at PyData Berlin 2018 and GHOSTDay 2019. Won multiple hackathons. Contributed to MXNet Model Server and other open source projects.

Data Scientist

Jul 2017 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos

End-to-end ML: popularity prediction, hybrid recommendation systems (LightFM + FAISS), multi-task image classification, image quality models. All shipped to production on Kubernetes/AWS with async Python pipelines.
Supervised master's theses. Interviewed dozens of candidates. Created internal tooling and project templates.

Capgemini

Senior Data Scientist and Big Data Engineer

Nov 2016 – May 2017 · 6 mos · Utrecht Area, Netherlands

Led the technical side of a sports analytics project for the Dutch Swimming and Rowing federations. Architected the data platform (Hadoop, Spark, HBase), built the first front-end demo, deployed on AWS.

Owlin

Data Scientist / Software Engineer

May 2015 – May 2016 · 1 yr · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Built a topic clustering algorithm, a Bayesian spam filter, data visualizations. Designed the company's OpenStack cluster. Pushed for testing, CI/CD, and containers before it was cool.