Alessandro Potenza
I build production software and own it after it ships, from the client’s problem down to the compiler when that is where it sits. MSc at Politecnico di Milano, now Visiting Forward Deployed AI Engineer at BCG X.
Experience
800+ hours taught, and 2 systems for an energy client
Education
AI Systems track, 3rd of 193 in the AIRLab challenge
110 / 110 cum laude, in the Honors Program
Projects
Doubling landfill localisation at 120 cm without retraining
rMAE 0.34 to 0.39 across all 7 Italian power zones
677,534 parcels read, 611 big enough to build on
Open source
Skills
Programming
Python · TypeScript · C++ · JavaScript · C · Java · SQL
AI/ML
PyTorch · LLM APIs · Computer Vision · Scikit-learn · SLAM · TensorFlow · NLP
Systems
CUDA · OpenAI Triton · Docker · GCP · Linux · Kubernetes · Git · AWS
Formal methods
Z3 SMT Solver · Formal Verification · Neuro-Symbolic AI
Data
PostgreSQL · MongoDB · MySQL · Redis · VectorDB · Spark
Web
FastAPI · React · Node.js · REST APIs
Achievements
Paper accepted, IEEE HPEC 2026
Sole author, accepted for an oral talk and IEEE Xplore
AI Challenge, third place
3rd of 193 teams, Vision Transformer ensemble
Merit-Based Scholarship
Awarded Dec 2025 on grade average and credits earned
Tech4Good Global Finalist
National winner of 1, then the global finals in China