Alessio Rocchi

AI Researcher

Rome, Latium, Italy12 yrs 2 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Delivered a 9-service AI-driven trading platform.
Achieved Sharpe 1.64 on S&P 500 equities.
Led AI integration at VMware, securing €60M+ in technical wins.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Cloud Solutions Architect with strong AI and Machine Learning expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

Algorithmic TradingMachine LearningSolution ArchitectureAi IntegrationInfrastructure AutomationCloud Solutions

Other Skills

PythonFastAPINext.jsPostgreSQLKubernetesPyTorchRay RLlibRedisDockerSoftware Architectural DesignAIDevOpsC#AnsiblePuppet

About

Former Staff/Principal Architect at VMware (7 years). Now building AI-driven trading platforms that combine reinforcement learning with real-time execution on Interactive Brokers. Delivered a 9-service platform (Python, FastAPI, Next.js, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes) as a solo engineer, with RL strategies achieving Sharpe 1.64 on S&P 500 equities.

Experience

12 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

6 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Aigen solutions

Senior Quant Developer / ML Engineer

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Remote

Building intelligent trading infrastructure for fintech clients. Solo-engineered a 9-microservice algorithmic trading platform from data ingestion to live execution:
Designed and deployed a reinforcement learning trading engine (PyTorch, SAC/PPO, Ray RLlib) trained on A100 GPUs, achieving Sharpe 1.64 and Sortino 2.63 on S&P 500 equities
Built real-time execution pipeline connected to Interactive Brokers with multi-agent AI decision-making, position sizing (Kelly Criterion), and regime-adaptive risk management
Developed market data ingestion service processing 5,000+ US equities from multiple sources (Polygon.io, Yahoo Finance) with Redis Queue worker pool
Created investment intelligence platform with 8-component market regime detection, AI-powered sentiment analysis (Vertex AI Gemini), and portfolio optimization (CVXPY)
Stack: Python, FastAPI, Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, PyTorch, Ray RLlib

PythonFastAPINext.jsPostgreSQLKubernetesPyTorch+5

Vmware

Staff / Principal Solution Architect → Cloud-Native Presales → Product Manager – VMware Tanzu

Jan 2017 – Apr 2024 · 7 yrs 3 mos · Rome · Remote

Led strategic initiatives to integrate AI and machine learning into VMware’s cloud and virtualization solutions, enabling clients to build resilient, scalable platforms.
Championed adoption of DevOps and cloud‑native technologies (Kubernetes, Tanzu, microservices), improving deployment velocity and reliability.
Guided customer engagements on advanced analytics and predictive modelling, translating business requirements into AI‑powered solutions and securing technical wins worth €60M+.
Collaborated with product teams to embed machine‑learning capabilities into virtualization and infrastructure products, generating new revenue streams.
Mentored cross‑functional teams and trained 30+ field architects on AI/ML best practices, MLOps and cloud‑native value selling.
Presented at industry events and conferences, evangelizing the potential of AI/ML and reinforcing VMware’s leadership in modern infrastructure.
Broadcom acquisition — departed by choice

Software Architectural DesignSolution ArchitectureKubernetesAIMachine LearningDevOps+1

Aruba s.p.a.

Solutions Architect

Feb 2012 – Jan 2017 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Arezzo Area, Italy

Co-designed and built “Aruba Cloud,” the company’s first public IaaS offering. Wrote Python + C# services that orchestrated VMware vSphere/KVM and exposed a self-service portal for customers.
Automated provisioning and ops: introduced Ansible / Puppet pipelines that cut VM delivery from hours to minutes and drove deployment error rate below 2 %.
Hands-on datacentre work: racked and wired hundreds of servers and switches, then scripted firmware installs and network configs (Cisco / Juniper) to reach > 95 % rollout SLA.
Developed core billing & metering stack (ASP.NET 4.6, RabbitMQ, MySQL), handling real-time usage data for 6K+ tenants.
Supported presales—ran 30 + technical workshops and PoCs with enterprise prospects, helping sales land € 2M in annual contracts.
Mentored 6 junior engineers on Python, .NET and infrastructure-as-code; three were later promoted to architect roles.
Tech: Python · C# / .NET · Go · Ansible · Puppet · Vagrant · Docker · VMware vSphere · KVM · Ceph · MySQL · Git

PythonC#AnsiblePuppetDockerMySQL+3