Nicola Ricciardi
AI & Software Engineer
About
Motivated AI & Software Engineer with a pragmatic approach, developed since high school through personal projects and direct collaborations with local companies.
Alongside my academic studies, these experiences allowed me to develop solid practical expertise and a strong aptitude for solving complex problems in real-world scenarios.
I possess strong team coordination and organizational skills, consistently ensuring goal achievement through effective leadership and methodological precision.
November 2002
Reggio Emilia, IT
Native
B2
- UniMoRe English Certificate
Skills
AI & ML
PyTorch LLM & MLLM Gymnasium & SB3 Scikit-learn Prophet PettingZoo & RLlib
Frontend
Angular Svelte & SvelteKit Tauri Bootstrap & Tailwind Blade Flutter
General
Python Java C Rust Kotlin C++ Bash
Backend
Laravel FastAPI Spring Boot NestJS MQTT GraphQL Kafka Streams
Database
MySQL Sqlite MS Server MongoDB
Other
Arduino Docker Prometheus & Grafana
Professional Experience
Full stack Engineer
McRegEm (B810), R. Emilia, IT
2022 - Now
- Dashboard (Laravel and Angular) for managing remote camper areas with IoT devices.
- Distributed IoT devices management system with Java, Kafka Streams and Angular.
Internship in Scalable Multimodal LLMs
UniMoRe, Modena, IT
2025 - 2026
- Information-efficient Vision Encoder (image processing).
- Training of LLaVA (Multimodal LLM text + images) model on a GPU cluster.
Internship in Distributed Systems of Digital Twins
UniMoRe, Modena, IT
2023 - 2024
- Distributed Digital Twins system for the management of the municipal video surveillance system.
- System performance profiling and consumption analysis (Grafana, Prometheus, cAdvisor).
Freelancer Web Developer
Reggio Emilia, IT
2018 - 2021
- Management dashboard for internal company data.
- Websites for commercial businesses.
Education
Master's Degree in Artificial Intelligence Engineering
UniMoRe, Modena, IT
2024 - Now
- Thesis on efficient Multimodal Large Language Models.
- System for digitizing handwritten diagrams using Computer Vision.
- System for monitoring and predicting road surface conditions based on IoT sensor data and Machine Learning models.
- Drones swarm (Multi-agent RL system) to search for missing persons after incidents.
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering 110/110
UniMoRe, Modena, IT
2021 - 2024
- Thesis on the development and analysis of a distributed Digital Twins system for managing the municipal video-surveillance system.
High School Diploma in Computer Science 100/100
Piero Gobetti, Scandiano, IT
2016 - 2021
- First-level Cisco certification.
- Project manager during the development of an automated ticketing system for the institute.
Open Source Projects
Orbitalis & Busline
- Distributed, event-based micro-kernel library for Python designed to simplify the construction of loosely coupled, scalable, and modular systems.
Mock Physical Twin
- Lightweight, asynchronous Python-based simulator designed to emulate IoT ecosystems.
Counterfactual RUL Predictor
- Counterfactual with diffusion-based model for RUL prediction and new synthetic data generation.
Diagram
- Computer vision for analyzing different types of handwritten diagrams and converting them into well-rendered images through a textual syntax.
PaveGuard
- Distributed system of IoT devices for urban road monitoring with AI integration for predicting future road conditions.
NMD
- Markdown compiler written in Rust designed to enhance the classic Markdown syntax with additional features.
TaskUp
- Jira-like task management system based on Python with integration with Git.
Publications
Orbitalis: A Distributed Microkernel Framework
DAIS 2026 - 26th International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, June 8-12 2026, Urbino, Italy
- Nicola Ricciardi, Marco Picone, Riccardo Morandi and Nicola Bicocchi
Last updated on April 16, 2025
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