My name is Ilaria Corda, and I am an AI Engineer | Senior Backend Engineer with a rich and diverse background. My journey spans from Philosophy and Ontology Engineering in Academia to cutting-edge AI Engineering and Generative AI applications. With a decade of experience, I have excelled in R&D, Application Support, Software Development, and, most recently, in AI-powered solutions across industries such as Academia, Consultancy, Telecoms, E-commerce, Big Data, Transport, Financial Services & Fintech, Automotive, and IoT.
🌍 With over 10 years of experience (in the UK, Germany, and currently in Italy), I have a solid track record of working effectively with international, cross-functional, and geographically distributed teams.
Core Tech Stack:
- Golang, Grpc, Protobuf - Golang is my preferred language!
- JVM languages: Java, Kotlin, Scala (AKKA and Actor Model), Spring, SpringBoot
- Restful APIs, Microservices, Event-Driven Systems, Domain-Driven Design
- Ruby, Ruby on Rails
- Recently experimenting with WebAssembly!
- Generative AI (GenAI): Expertise in LLMs, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, embeddings & RAG, and API integrations
Recent Explorations:
- Prometheus, Grafana, PromQL
- RabbitMQ, Kafka
- AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform
📚 As a lifelong learner, I am a passionate Backend Engineer keen on constantly keeping up-to-date with new technologies and market trends.
I like to make "things happen" and rarely capitulate. Before tackling any dev work, I need to have a 360 degrees view (aka Big Picture) and I really like to be part of the requirement gathering phase as well as the planning one. Get in touch if you have an interesting project and you feel I can be of help!
In my free time, you'll find me:
- Reading
- Listening to music (I have a soft spot for Opera and Classical Music)
- Running/fitness in general
- Avid gamer
- Sci-fi aficionado
Feel free to explore my GitHub repositories and connect with me on other platforms! I am keen to hear about potential collaborations and opportunities. Please note that this is my PERSONAL Github profile and at work I might or might not using another profile altogether.