Tommaso Romano
Hey๐Ÿ‘‹ I'm Tommaso Romano'
a software engineer from Milan, Italy ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น
currently at AWS in Berlin, Germany ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช
ExperienceA selected list
Software Developer Engineer
Amazon Web Services (AWS) โ€ข Berlin, Germany
Nov. 2023 - Present ()
In the team of Amazon Q: the generative AI-powered assistant
Tech:
Senior Data Scientist
Human Hall โ€ข
March 2024 - Present (8 Months)
Working with a multidisciplinary team on language detection; Human Hall is backed by European Union and MUSA, with several partners like Deloitte
- Co-directed the development of pipelines for fine-tune LLMs and synthetic data.
Tech: Python, Hugging Face, Ollama, Unsloth, AWS
Software Developer Engineer Intern
Amazon โ€ข Berlin, Germany
Sept. 2023 - Feb. 2024 (6 months)
Robotics. Research team mainly composed of PhD Applied Scientists. Mission: develop robots to pick any kind of item from human-task-designed pods in warehouses. IEEE
- Designed from scratch a flexible, modular and extensible architecture for the operators UI, to speed up the development pipeline, and to enable external testing.
- Took ownership of the project and worked side by side with stakeholders; suggested and guided the refactoring the whole team data schema
- Winner the Amazon Robotics internal hackathon with a project about streaming and remote controlling the Universal Robots
Tech: React, TypeScript, ProtoBuf, Kotlin, Python, AWS
Software Engineer
FamaLabs โ€ข
Aug. 2022 - May. 2023 (9 months)
FamaLabs is an experienced company in distributed systems and cloud architectures in healthcare.
- Took ownership and proactively guided the development of the modular survey engine and compiler, and designed UI library for MAP (Medical Adaptive Platform): a dashboard built for doctors to easily manage CRF and more.
Tech: Next.js, TypeScript, Redux, Jest, Storybook
Founding Software Engineer
Drembits Studio โ€ข
May 2021 - Nov. 2022 (1 year and 6 months)
Founding team. Worked on War of Wheels: a multiplayer game about medieval-punk fighting cars.
- Winner of BGF: funding of 120k and starup accelerator; participated in several international events (like GamesCom Cologne, GamesConnection Paris and GDC San Francisco) while pitching to publishers and investors.
- Helped the growth of the team from 5 to 20 employees; proactively leaded the team for the design and implementation of the multiplayer and networking system.
Tech: Unity, CSharp, PhotonEngine, Python
Tommaso Romano GamesCom 2022
Tommaso Romano Game Connection Paris 2022
Tommaso Romano Bologna Game Farm 2022
Data Scientist
Smart Bear EU โ€ข Milan, Italy
April 2022 - Oct. 2022 (6 months)
Smart-Bear is a big data platform in healthcare funded by the European Union and in collaborations with top European Universities; it offer evidence-based interventions thanks to predictive analytics.
- Built modular and cloud-optimized pipelines for predictive analysis, data imputation and visualization while protecting user health data anonymity.
Tech: Python, PySpark, Echats.js and AI/ML libraries
ProjectsA selected list
Software Engineer
Stealth Startup โ€ข
Sept. 2015 - Jan. 2022 (6 years and 5 months)
Developed several commercial projects from videogames to AI automations and websites. Here are some of the most relevant:
- Untitled Nature Game: a prototype game that went viral with several millions of views across TikTok, Reddit and Twitter. It got offers from several investors and publishers.
- RELOW: a solo-developed multiplayer game, released in 2020 with 5k+ sales, showcased in several expositions like Milan Games Week 2019 and 2020, and Svilupparty 2019 and 2020; attended and given several talks and interviews.
- POLYWAR: multiplayer game released in 2016 with 200k+ sales in collaboration with the publisher New Reality Games
- Easy Insta Growth: 2020-2021 an Instagram AI automation, with hundreds of clients worldwide.
- Freelance worked on several websites
Tech: Unity, CSharp, Python, React
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Tommaso Romano MGW
Startup on AI in Management Software
Hackathon โ€ข 5-6 October 2024
Finalist team. Developed an idea of AI for ERP, and pitched to investors. Organized by AssoSoftware, Polihub, Generali, Italian Tech Alliance and CDP
Paper โ€ข 2-4 September 2024
Publication for IEEE CSR Conference in London about Synthetic Dataset generation for Large Language Models
I have been nominated in this list by StartupItalia that consists of professional allowing italian videogame industry to shine in the world of creativity
Event โ€ข 3-4 Nov. 2022
I have took part and pitched at the Game Connection Paris: the deal making event for the video game industry. Game Connection is the international event where developers, publishers, distributors and service providers come to find new partners and clients.
Funding and Accelerator โ€ข Dec. 2021 - July 2022
Winner of Bologna Game Farm: a funding of 120k and entrepreneurial accelerator dedicated to innovative startups for the development of videogames.