Davide Di Grande
“mental meandering and personal experimentation are sources of power, and head starts are overrated” - David Epstein, Range

 Software Engineer  |  S2E Sprint S.r.l.  |  Sep 2024 - present

Development of Data Management, Data Observability, and Analytics solutions on AWS.

Developement of RAG applications with Java/Python/Langchain/FastAPI/Elastic

Participating in presales activities and interacting with technology vendors.
 Data Teacher  |  Develhope S.r.l.  |  Giu 2024 - Nov 2024 [6 months]

Provided teaching for a comprehensive data course, including live coding sessions with students and asynchronous exercise correction.

Guided students from the basics to advanced skills, starting with simple Excel analyses and progressing to complex data manipulation and exploratory data analysis (EDA) using SQL, Python, and Pandas.

Led the final Data Analysis project, where students performed an in-depth EDA on the Titanic Dataset: github.com/davidedigrande/titanic-dataset-eda.
 Backend Engineer  |  RWS Tech S.r.l.  |  Sep 2023 - Sep 2024 [1 year]

Worked on a variety of projects within various business domains, in a small and agile team.

Contributed to the design and implementation of applications backends, business logic and relational database structures using Python and ORM frameworks. Developed clean, normalized database schemas to reflect business requirements, facilitating complex workflows and system efficiencies.

Developed backend integration of web APIs using Python, focusing on multi-platform state synchronization and client's workflows automation regarding external services.
 Data Engineer  |  ALTEN Italia S.p.A.  |  Sep 2022 - Sep 2023 [1 year]

Contributed to the development of a Cloud Data Platform at BMW Europe, leveraging PostgreSQL as a Data Warehouse and AWS services to manage with evolving business needs data from heterogeneous sources.

Developed and optimized ETL scripts using AWS Glue, Python, PySpark and other technologies, ensuring efficient data integration and transformation processes, with a strong focus on processes observability (CloudWatch).

Orchestrated Lambda services via Step Functions to implement business logic.

Designed CloudFormation stacks to automate the deployment of the aforementioned functionalities with IaC practices.
Mainained a JEE8/Java Spring Framework Application.
 Software Engineer  |  Expleo Italia S.p.A.  |  Dec 2020 - Sep 2022 [1 year 10 months]

Software Engineer at the R&D department.
Partecipated in building the company's Data Warehouse for ML Models training and other data-centric projects by designing, developing, maintaining and deploying ETL workflows to populate the Data Warehouse.

Developed other smaller web-apps as POCs with Django and MongoDB.
Supporting other projects with ad-hoc intervetions both inside the department and outside, on clients' projects.
 Certified Data Engineer  |  Amazon Web Services (AWS)  |  Dec 2024
 Certified Cloud Practitioner  |  Amazon Web Services (AWS)  |  Mar 2023
 Google IT Support Certificate  |  Coursera  |  Oct 2020
 Bachelor of Business Administration  |  Universitas Mercatorum  |  2018 - 2024

Explored an array of business disciplines including operations management, financial analysis, marketing, and strategy formulation. Microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics, statistics to model and understand the environment businesses operate in.
 ICT Diploma  |  I.T.I.S. N. Copernico  |  2008 - 2013

Laid the fundaments of my programming and computers knowledge studying Algorithms and Data Structures, Relational Database Design and SQL, Systems and Networking, OOP, Java, Maths and Statistics.