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Andrea Bonanno

@andreatbonanno

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Lead Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML, data engineering, and scalable full‑stack systems.

Italy

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior roles building production AI/ML and data pipelines where I can lead teams, drive architecture, and deliver scalable, cloud-native solutions.

I am a Lead Software Engineer with nearly 15 years of commercial experience across full‑stack web development, data engineering, and AI/ML innovation. I hold an MSc in Computer Science and have led distributed teams to deliver production ML and data platforms.

My career highlights include building ML‑as‑a‑service frameworks, real‑time fraud detection pipelines on Databricks and Spark, and agentic AI platforms using Gemini and FastAPI. I have driven migrations to cloud data platforms, developed custom ingestion plugins, and implemented monitoring and CI/CD for real‑time systems.

I combine hands‑on technical expertise with leadership experience, having managed cross‑functional teams and delivered scalable, productionized solutions across AWS, Azure, Databricks, Kafka, and modern ML toolchains.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Lead AI Engineer

Current

Elio

Jul 2025 - Present (4 months)

Built a scalable agentic AI platform with FastAPI microservices and Pydantic validation, integrating Gemini API, AWS and Nylas to automate insurance workflows.

Microservices Agentic AI Nylas CI CD fastAPI Pydantic AWS

Staff ML Engineer

FIS

Aug 2024 - Jun 2025 (10 months)

Led globally distributed teams to deliver ML-as-a-service templates/APIs and built an AI-powered customer onboarding product using microservices and intelligent agents, improving onboarding automation.

Spark Ray Databricks Azure OpenAI Microservices Team Leadership

IT Architect Specialist

FIS

Mar 2022 - Aug 2024 (2 years 5 months)

Delivered RAG LLM solutions with LangChain, led fraud detection model development on Databricks for real-time anomaly detection, and migrated data pipelines from Hadoop to Snowflake/Databricks on AWS.

LLMs (LangChain Databricks Spark Snowflake AWS Fraud Detection Data Migration

Software Engineer Specialist

FIS

Oct 2020 - Mar 2022 (1 year 5 months)

Designed and implemented Docker-based real-time fraud model health monitoring with Kafka Streams, Prometheus, and Grafana on AWS EKS, and led Spark-based fraud reporting and data quality tooling.

Docker Kafka Streams Prometheus Grafana Spark Data Quality Monitoring

Senior Data Engineer

FIS

Dec 2018 - Oct 2020 (1 year 10 months)

Built batch and real-time ingestion pipelines to the enterprise data lake using Sqoop, Hive, HBase, Kafka and Spark Streaming, and developed custom Kafka connectors and a POS transaction parser in Scala.

Sqoop Hive HBase Kafka Scala ETL

Senior Big Data Engineer

Data Reply UK

Jul 2018 - Oct 2018 (3 months)

Collaborated with Quantexa and HSBC to customize and deploy Dynamic Entity Resolution and Network Analytics using Scala, Spark and Elasticsearch for large-scale graph analytics.

Scala Spark Elasticsearch Gradle Quantexa Entity Resolution

Data Engineer

SCL Group

Nov 2016 - May 2018 (1 year 6 months)

Designed and operationalised an AWS data platform with Mesosphere DC/OS, Hadoop and containerised Spark/Presto services, and developed Spark Scala libraries for data profiling and migration.

AWS Hadoop Spark Scala Kubernetes Docker Presto Data Profiler

Data Engineering Intern

Just Eat / Faculty

Sep 2016 - Oct 2016 (1 month)

Implemented a data lake on Azure and developed Python ETL libraries using the BigQuery API as part of an 8-week selective fellowship focused on ML and distributed processing.

Azure Python BigQuery ETL Pyspark Data Lake

Software Engineer

SWService

Oct 2013 - Aug 2016 (2 years 10 months)

Delivered 25+ custom software solutions for clients across Italy, UK and USA, performing full-stack web development with Java Spring Boot and Android/GUI applications.

Java Spring Boot Full Stack Web Development Android GUI тестування SQL

Software Engineer

USpin LLC

Sep 2012 - Sep 2013 (1 year)

Contributed to full-stack web development with Java Spring Boot and helped implement the platform recommendation engine within an agile team.

Java Spring Boot Agile Recommendation Systems SQL Web Development

Instructor

InternalDrive Inc.

Jun 2012 - Aug 2012 (2 months)

Taught Java, Python and iOS programming labs to 25+ pre-college students at the MIT iD Tech Summer Camp.

Java Python iOS Development Teaching

Research Assistant

Northeastern University

Jan 2012 - Jun 2012 (5 months)

Developed front-end web data visualizations (HTML5 Canvas, jQuery) for the SpaPlay social game to support research in game analytics.

HTML5 jQuery CSS3 Data Visualization

Research Assistant

Simon Fraser University

Sep 2010 - Aug 2011 (11 months)

Conducted game user research at Electronic Arts Canada investigating telemetry, eye tracking and physiological data to inform player experience studies.

User Research Telemetry Eye Tracking Data Analysis Experimental Design

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

University of Illinois Chicago

Master of Science, Computer Science

2008 - 2010

Grade: 3.71 GPA

Completed a Master of Science in Computer Science with graduate research in Machine Learning and a GPA of 3.71.

Politecnico di Milano

Master of Science, Computing Systems Engineering

2004 - 2009

Grade: 110/110 cum Laude

Completed studies in Computing Systems Engineering, earning a Master of Science (110/110 cum Laude) and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering (100/110).