Stefano Lori
Lead Data & AI Engineer | Spark NLP contributor
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Salary / Daily rate
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06560 Valbonne, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
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Languages
About me
Intro
I'm a dynamic Data & AI Engineer, passionately driving innovation across various sectors - from travel and fintech/paytech to healthcare, marketplaces and now thriving in consumer insights. With an extensive open-source profile, I've contributed to the success of the great Spark NLP project, demonstrating my commitment to advancing technology. Today, I'm focused on leveraging this expertise to lead data and AI teams in understanding and solving complex data challenges.
Work experience
Head of Data Engineering Z-EUR
Nestlé
Mar 2025 - Jan 2026
11 months
Paris, France
Building the Consumer Data Hub for marketing insights in zone Europe, supporting data science deployment, design robust tooling, and consolidate data engineering best practices across European markets.
Head of Data services
SMG Swiss Marketplace Group
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
6 months
06560 Valbonne, France
• Led the GM data tech team at SMG Swiss Marketplace Group to oversee the GCP data stack (Beam, BigQuery, BigTable, Kafka, data micro-services) • Maintained streaming ingestion pipelines. • Designed and implemented real-time online fraud detection system on auction platform. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to enhance data products and services.
Senior NLP Engineer and Engineering Manager - NLP EHR Team Leader
Ryte
Feb 2024 - Oct 2024
9 months
Paris, France
I worked, leading my team, on healthcare data (EHR) to improve clustering, classification and recommendation using custom transformers architectures. - BEHRT model training - integrated evidence modelling on EHR-Claim
Owner | Founder
StefAIFreelance
Nov 2020 - Aug 2024
3 years 10 months
Nice, France
AI for Healthcare, Finance and ESG
Data Scientist - Open source Spark NLP core team
John Snow Labs
Nov 2020 - Mar 2024
3 years 5 months
Working on the powerful union between Apache Spark and NLP models (TensorFlow, PyTorch and others)
Izicap
Aug 2021 - Mar 2024
2 years 8 months
Team Lead Big Data and Data Science
Jun 2022 - Mar 2024
1 year 10 months
I worked with my team on the creation of Izicap's new generation data platform to leverage analytics at scale. Tools: Spark 3.x on K8s, Airflow, Delta Lake and MLFlow for streaming and batch data. I also worked on recommendation topics and causal impact analysis as a new method to improve metrics on merchant actions ROI .
Lead Data Engineer
Aug 2021 - Jul 2022
1 year
Nice, France
I worked on Izicap’s Spark applications for performance and stability improvements, experimenting on Spark on K8s and Delta Lake APIs. I participated on analytics research for data products improvements.
Tech Lead Data / Senior Data Scientist
Linxo
Oct 2019 - Oct 2021
2 years 1 month
Sophia Antipolis, Provence Alpes Cote Azur
I worked as senior data scientist in Linxo Data team to provide technical guidance on the design and development of new data services. I supervised the Linxo's data science stack and I focused on creating scalable ML/DL pipelines on the cloud to apply NLP on banking transactions to solve classification and credit scoring tasks. Cloud provider: AWS Main languages: Scala, Python, Java ETL tools: AWS Glue, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Pandas, Koalas ML tools: scikit-learn, Flair (PyTorch), Spark MLlib, Spark NLP (TensorFlow), Hugging Face, Streamlit, MLFlow Orch&Deploy: K8s and Docker IDE tools: VS Code, IntelliJ, JupyterLab, PyCharm
Amadeus IT Group
Nov 2014 - Oct 2019
5 years
13700 Marignane, France
Machine Learning Engineer in Airline IT Business Intelligence
Jun 2018 - Oct 2019
1 year 5 months
13700 Marignane, France
Architecture and Data Analytics team Designing and developing real time streaming platforms for airlines analytics -Cloud platform: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Databricks -Hadoop distros: Cloudera, MapR -Tools: Spark, Kafka, TensorFlow, PyTorch -Languages: Scala, Python, Java, HQL
Machine Learning Engineer in Search, Shopping and Pricing engines
Nov 2014 - May 2018
3 years 7 months
Sophia Antipolis
Architecture, Engineering and Data Intelligence team New solutions and optimization in Amadeus shopping and pricing engines Hadoop distro: Cloudera, MapR Tools: Sqoop, Hive, Kafka, Spark SQL, Spark MLlib Main languages: Scala, Java, HQL, Python, R
Data engineer consultant
Self-Employed
May 2014 - Dec 2014
8 months
Large-scale SVM learning problems Anomaly detection algorithms Big Data architecture Tools: R, Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark MLlib
R&D Software Engineer
Amadeus IT Group
Feb 2012 - Jul 2014
2 years 6 months
Sophia Antipolis, France
Back-end transaction processing for airline industry - global core systems Robotic Issuance Processing (event-driven architecture) Data aggregation and monitoring Tools: OBE, TPF, Eclipse Main languages: C++, Java, Python
Java EE Software Engineer
Banca Intesa
Nov 2011 - Mar 2012
5 months
Florence Area, Italy
Java Enterprise development in bank systems for loyalty management on oil industry Tools: Eclipse WTP, Maven, Oracle DB Main languages: Java SE/EE, SQL
MoS student at Global Optimization Laboratory
University of Florence
Feb 2011 - Oct 2011
9 months
Analysis and classification of EEG patterns using supervised and unsupervised learning approach on Visual Evoked Brain Potentials. Related topics: Neuroscience, Time series analysis, SVM Tools: Matlab, Octave, Libsvm Languages: R, Java, Python, C++
Java Software Developer
DrWOLF srl
Sep 2008 - Dec 2008
4 months
Java software developer for a data mining application based on Eclipse RCP Tools: Eclipse RCP Main language: Java
Education
Liceo Scientifico Leonardo da Vinci (Grammar School - GCE at A level)
Science Course Diploma, Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science
PNI - (Piano Nazionale Informatico)
Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Erasmus academic year, Computer Engineering
Activities and societies: Computer Engineering applied to economics and business management. Application development on Google App Engine.
Lisbon, Portugal
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Professional Certificate in Web programming using JEE technology, SQL, Eclipse IDE, Design Patterns
Activities and societies: Software design, analysis and development on JEE Technology using MySQL databases and Design Patterns.
Stage at DrWOLF srl (300 hours).
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Master of Science, Computer Engineering
Grade: 110/110 cum laude
Activities and societies: MoS thesis: "Analysis and classification of EEG patterns for recognition of cognitive states"
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Bachelor, Computer Engineering
Activities and societies: Bachelor thesis: "Design and development of a plugin in Eclipse RCP for the K-means analysis of abstract clusters"
Licenses & certifications
Deep Learning Specialization (5 courses series)
Issued: May 2019
Big Data Analysis with Scala and Spark
Issued: Feb 2019