Carlo Dalla Quercia
LLM Engineer | Transformers & RAG Expert
Salary / Daily rate
Paris, France
Mobility: Paris, London, ...
Freelance
Can come onsite
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About me
Intro
LLM Engineer and AI Instructor with 5+ years delivering end-to-end AI solutions across manufacturing and education. Built advanced RAG systems, fine-tuning pipelines, and trained 100+ professionals at TII Abu Dhabi and SDA Riyadh. Specialized in PyTorch, Transformers, RLHF, and production-ready LLM applications—ready to transform your AI vision into scalable reality.
Work experience
Instructor
WeCloudData
Dec 2023 - Present
2 years 11 months
Toronto, ON, Canada
- Training & Technical Implementation: AI adoption at TII Abu Dhabi; Generative AI bootcamp for post-graduate students at SDA Riyadh. - Curriculum Development: Built and taught labs on Transformers, PyTorch, RLHF, Model Merging, and Sequence Models - RAG & Fine-tuning: Developed end-to-end modules for Advanced RAG (Hybrid Search, Vector DBs) and LLM distillation
Data Science and AR
AR Solutions
Sep 2021 - Present
5 years 2 months
Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy
Projects: - web-based virtual assistant for manufacturing process calibration - AR Mobile app (Android and iOS): spatially persistent and sharable maps with virtual sticky notes Within AR Solutions I develop end-to-end projects on different technologies (AR and AI) for industrial applications. I discuss requirements with stakeholders and develop data solutions. Another activity is organizing digital trainings on data analytics, data science and artificial intelligence (instagram.com/learnai.official) Tech stack: Flask, JavaScript, Python Transformers, AWS EC2, NLP (Rasa, Langchain), LLM, REST API, SQL
HP
Sep 2019 - Oct 2021
2 years 2 months
Singapore
Data Scientist II
Apr 2021 - Oct 2021
7 months
Singapore
Data Scientist I
Apr 2020 - May 2021
1 year 2 months
Singapore
Analytics Line owner - Smart Manufacturing, Industry 4.0 Design of analytics based solutions to improve assembly line (yield, cost, quality). Full stack DS - from data retrieval to user interface. Successful project to cut direct labor by 50% at assembly process with prescriptive ML solution. Computer vision project to automate weekly 2h+ long object counting task.
Data Scientist
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
7 months
Singapore
Data Science in Manufacturing. I used diagnostic algorithms to understand rootcauses of failures in printheads quality checks. Focus on explainable models - e.g. Bayesian Networks, Decision Trees, Rule Lists - consumable by subject matter experts. I built an online dashboard in Plotly for real time monitoring. TOOLS USED: Python, SQL, Data Iku, Bayes Server
Business Analytics Project
Waitrr
May 2019 - Jul 2019
3 months
Singapore
Created two interactive online dashboards using Python and Google Colab interface to perform automatic feedback analysis and user demographic analysis TOOLS USED: Pandas (Python Package), Tableau (Data Viz Software), Jupiter Notebook
Capstone Project
MOZAT PTE LTD
Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
4 months
Singapore
Developing new features for fashion AI App based on Image Recognition. NLP based analysis of Instagram comments for improving categorisation accuracy. TOOLS USED: SQL (Database), Pandas (Python), Word2Vec
Operations Team Member
Rolling Pandas
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
2 months
20060 Zona Industriale, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy
Updating of online marketplace for travels using WordPress. Visibility growth strategy through Instagram Bot. Competitor analysis.
Associate
Bocconi Students for Digital Consulting
Mar 2017 - May 2018
1 year 3 months
Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy
Writing and publishing articles about technological innovations. Participating in and organizing workshops and events. In-company visits in tech sector (ex. Cisco)
Finance Department Intern
SEAT,SA
Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
3 months
Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
Database reading and management of invoices from suppliers and customers .Problem solving: risk management project presented to division manager
Education
ESSEC | CentraleSupélec - Master Data Sciences & Business Analytics
Master in Data Sciences and Business Analytics, Data Science and Business Analytics
DSBA Scholarship #3 worldwide, QS ranking Advanced Deep Learning - Reinforcement Learning - Natural Language Processing - Big Data Platforms - Optimization - Machine Learning - Foundations of Geometric Methods in Data Analysis - Network Science Analytics
Georgia Institute of Technology
Università Bocconi
International Economics and Management
Licenses & certifications
Electronics Engineering BTech BEPU
Issued: Nov 2020
GMAT 710/800 (Quantitative 46 / 60%, Verbal 41 / 94%)
Issued: Mar 2018
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