Marco P.
AI and Data Science Leader | ex Meta, eBay, Yahoo, BMW
Experience
Head of Data Science and Data Engineering
Entrix
- Managing the ML, optimization and data engineering team in the field of energy trading
- Established and leading multi-year research roadmap
- Developed and implementing hiring plan for science and data
- Spearheading data engineering efforts in the company
- Led the team to deploy a new trading algorithm, increasing assets’ revenue of 18%
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Meta
Joined Meta to reconnect hands-on with state-of-the-art deep learning models, pipelines and LLMs
Designed and implemented several contributions to production and research ML projects across Facebook properties, including:
LLama LLM: delivered a solution to automatically generate high-quality fine-tuning datasets to train LLama to use external tools (e.g. search engine, code compiler)
Facebook Reels Recommendation: fine-tuned the Facebook Social Graph Neural Network model to recommend Reels to cold-start users and optimized the code of the production data pipeline, resulting in 10% saving of production storage capacity
FAIR Machine Translation: successfully demonstrated the feasibility of performing semantic operations on top of Facebook Sonar linguistic embeddings across multiple languages
Head of Data Management and Data Analytics, Autonomous Driving
BMW AG
- Managed a 50+ people organization of internal and external developers, responsible for the end-to-end ingestion, management and servicing of Autonomous Driving (AD) data collected from the BMW development fleet and the BMW worldwide customer fleet
- Delivered first end-to-end solution at BMW for validating AD functions using data from customer vehicles, achieving >20% saving in testing budget
- Implemented novel data quality strategy and pipelines, which resulted in an increase in data usability from 40% to 70%
- Successfully transitioned the organization from vehicle generation 2021 to 2025, despite resource tightness, with minimal attrition and roadmap delays
Technical Manager, Autonomous Driving
BMW AG
- Technical and product management responsibility for data for AD, leading several development teams
- Delivered first large scale solution that evaluates AD functions, processing 600TB data nightly and used by >40 teams, key for the successful start of production of BMW Level 2 AD vehicles
- Overhauled existing data ingestion pipeline for the AD test fleet, introducing SOTA solutions for monitoring, logging and observability; improved pipelines success rate from 80% to 99%
- Delivered global CI/CD for AD data pipelines, enabling data usage across geographical locations (Europe, US, China) and cooperation partners
Principal Engineer
BMW AG
- Technical lead of data team for AD; responsible for overall architecture design and implementation and led data cooperation with AD partners
- Implemented first scalable pipeline to ingest data from the AD test fleet, transitioning from manual copying to automated data center pipelines, scaling to petabytes of data
- Built the team from ground up, from 2 developers to 10 (evolved into an organization of 50 people by 2021)
AI Specialist
Loop AI
- Developed large scale text mining algorithms for an early-stage startup, including automatic identification of persons’ life events from social media accounts
- Supported CEO in defining technical vision and preparing pitches to prospective investors
Principal Engineer, Search Science & Rapid Response
eBay Inc.
- Technical lead of Rapid Response team, tasked to improve customer satisfaction via acquiring customer service data and Machine Learning; later served as senior member of the Search Science team in search spam detection
- Developed supervised and unsupervised ML solutions to identify customer painpoints from CS data (email, chat sessions), reducing customer contacts to CS department by 5%
- Launched real-time algorithm for search to identify near-duplicate items posted by unruly sellers, contributing to increased yearly revenues generated by the eBay search engine
Staff Research Scientist, Search Science and Content Science
Yahoo! Inc.
- Developed ML algorithms to extract and classify millions of entities from textual sources; delivered generated knowledge bases to the production Yahoo! search engine to support query analysis at search time
- Launched applications and ML algorithms in production to empower Yahoo! properties (e.g. Yahoo! Sports and Yahoo! Movies) with relevant real-time social media feeds
Summary
Accomplished organizational and technical leader with more than 15 years of experience at top software technology companies, including Meta, eBay and Yahoo!, focusing on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Data Engineering.
Successful hands-on track record in AI since 2006, encompassing research, software development and business development. Proven ability to help organizations accelerate their technical innovation, become more agile, and foster a proactive “get things done” mentality by leveraging a decade of experience in Silicon Valley. Strong ability in building and leading technical teams across functions and geographical regions, as well as being able to dive deep to find solutions for technical challenges.
Languages
Education
University of Rome Tor Vergata & University of Southern California
PhD, Artificial Intelligence, NLP · Computer Science · Los Angeles, United States
University of Rome Tor Vergata
MS, Computer Science · Computer Science · Rome, Italy
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