Open to opportunities

Riccardo Minzoni

@riccardominzoni

Message

Data scientist specializing in Generative AI and production ML solutions on Azure.

Italy

Message

What I'm looking for

I seek hands-on Data Scientist roles focused on Generative AI and production ML on Azure, in collaborative teams where I can drive technical leadership and measurable business impact.

I am a senior data scientist operating in Avanade Italy's Data Science role family, leading Generative AI programs that deliver business value through AI architectures and production pipelines. I design agentic chatbots, Azure OpenAI solutions, and scalable ML systems using Python, PySpark, Databricks, MLflow and Azure services.

I also led BI at a startup, building Power BI solutions from MySQL and advising founders on product improvements, and authored a published Master's thesis on reproducibility in NLP—demonstrating strong applied research and production experience.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Data Scientist

Current

Avanade Italy S.r.l.

Feb 2022 - Present (3 years 7 months)

Lead GenAI and data science projects delivering Azure OpenAI-based chatbots, document-intelligence pipelines and telemetry ML models; developed 80+ predictive use cases analyzing billions of vehicle telemetry records to enable proactive alerts and cost savings.

Python Databricks Pyspark Prompt Engineering MLFlow LightGBM RNN

Data Analyst – BI Specialist

SMACE

Designed and led an Azure Power BI business intelligence solution extracting MySQL sales data to identify product-improvement opportunities and produced monthly reports used by founders to optimize performance.

Power BI MySQL Azure SQL Data Modeling ETL Reporting Business Intelligence

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Università degli Studi di Padova

Master of Science in Data Science, Data Science

2019 - 2022

Grade: 104/110 (GPA 26.80/30)

Activities and societies: Internship at Avanade Italy (4 months); Master thesis published in Information (MDPI) titled 'A Thorough Reproducibility Study on Sentiment Classification'.

Master of Science in Data Science from Università degli Studi di Padova completed in 2022 with final mark 104/110. Master thesis published in Information (2023) and completed a 4-month curricular internship at Avanade Italy as Junior Data Scientist.

Università degli Studi di Ferrara

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Mathematics

2015 - 2018

Grade: 100/110 (GPA 25.86/30)

Activities and societies: 3-month internship at A.Roiti High School of Ferrara as assistant teacher; designed and delivered lessons.

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Università degli Studi di Ferrara completed in 2018 with final mark 100/110. Completed a 3-month internship at A.Roiti High School of Ferrara as assistant teacher.