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Riccardo Contessi

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AI Agent Engineer at Reply building multi-agent workflows with typed contracts, retrieval, and systematic evaluation.

Italy
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At Reply, I design and ship multi-agent workflows in Python, using tool calling, retrieval, and context engineering to move AI applications from proof of concept to production. I use typed Pydantic contracts and structured outputs to make model responses more predictable for downstream systems.

I evaluate agent output quality, retrieval correctness, indexed content, and integration calls, and debug issues across prompts, orchestration, and backend services. My work also includes Elasticsearch and MongoDB data layers, and deploying approved solutions through Docker and Jenkins CI/CD on Google Cloud Run.

Outside work, I build consumer AI products end to end. For MooWeather, I created an evaluation harness of 600+ test calls to measure structured-output reliability across models; I also built World News Monitor and HeyPantry!. My research at the University of Bergamo examined linguistic analogies in word embeddings, and I hold a Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering with a final grade of 110/110.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Current

AI Agent Engineer

Jun 2026 - Present (4 months)

Design and ship multi-agent workflows in Python on an in-house orchestration framework, turning model outputs into predictable actions with typed Pydantic contracts and structured outputs. Evaluate AI behaviour systematically and work on the Elasticsearch and MongoDB data layer, acting as technical reference for the team.

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IT Consultant, AI & Data Engineering

Oct 2024 - Jun 2026 (1 year 8 months)

Built RAG and multi-agent systems in Python for mission-critical banking systems, integrating LLM APIs with existing systems and databases. Orchestrated data and process pipelines with Apache Airflow and SQL/PL-SQL on Oracle, and migrated legacy Tuxedo and COBOL batch processes to modern orchestration workflows.

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Research Fellow – Word Embedding Analysis

University of Bergamo

Jun 2025 - Nov 2025 (5 months)

Conducted EU-funded research on whether semantic relationships are encoded in word embeddings, formalising vector arithmetic operations and comparing them experimentally on word pairs generated from WordNet. Demonstrated that the accuracy attributed to these operations is an artefact of excluding input vectors from the result set.

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Research Fellow – Automated Testing for Web Platforms

University of Bergamo

Apr 2024 - Oct 2024 (6 months)

Built an automated Playwright test suite for ENEA's PELL IP platform, working directly with the ENEA team.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

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Anthropic Academy

Claude 101 and Introduction to Agent Skills, AI

2026 - 2026

Completed Claude 101 and Introduction to Agent Skills certification from Anthropic Academy.

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Oracle

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 Certified Generative AI Professional, Generative AI

2025 - 2025

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 Certified Generative AI Professional certification covering RAG architectures, vector databases, and LLM application design.

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University of Bergamo

Master's Degree, Computer Engineering

2022 - 2024

Grade: 110/110

Master's Degree in Computer Engineering with final grade 110/110. Thesis on word embedding interpretability.

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University of Bergamo

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering

2018 - 2022

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Bergamo.

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