๐Ÿ‘ค Giuseppe Dejan Lucido

๐Ÿง  Data Scientist, Data Science Developer, AI Engineer, Statistician, Quantitative Analyst

๐Ÿ“ง dejanlucido@gmail.com
๐Ÿ“ Palermo, Italy
๐Ÿ“… 31 July 1994
๐Ÿง‘๐Ÿผโ€๐Ÿ’ป VAT: IT07375330821
๐ŸŒ giuseppedejanlucido.it
๐Ÿ’ผ linkedin.com/in/giuseppedejanlucido
Giuseppe Dejan Lucido

๐Ÿ’ผ WORK EXPERIENCE

๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป AI Engineer

๐Ÿข Bandit - Finanza agevolata
๐Ÿ“… 11/2025 - Present
๐Ÿ“ Palermo, Sicily, Italy ยท Remote

  • Agentic-AI infrastructure development using FastAPI and datapizza-ai python framework
  • Empowering end user application with complex pipelines powered by LLMs
  • Many different tasks of GenAI like docs extraction, RAG, chatbot, semantic recommendation system etc

๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป Co-Founder & CTO

๐Ÿข JourMe
๐Ÿ“… 06/2025 - Present
๐Ÿ“ Italy ยท Remote
โš’๏ธ Designing, managing and actively contributing to the technical development of an app for creating customized and optimized itineraries with proprietary Machine Learning algorithms.

๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป Head of Data - Data Science Developer - Tech PM

๐Ÿข Audacia Innovations
๐Ÿ“… 10/2021 - 12/2026
โš’๏ธ Collecting and analysing data from social networks and DSPs to help artists and labels to grow fast.

  • First employee of the startup & shareholder as investor.
  • Planning and setting up data strategy, tools and technologies for the core business.
  • Retrieving, hard-wrangling, analysing, displaying & modeling tons of data.
  • Development of an all-in-one business intelligence dashboard for internal use: Shiny App in R, which leverage different libraries and real time data through APIs and web services (YouTube, Instagram, Spotify, TikTok, Facebook, others).
  • Creating and deploying my own microservices with Docker to serve end user application.
  • Empowering tools and applications through machine learning and cutting-edge AI.
  • Designing app's architecture and functionalities for end users (database, backend, frontend) and implementation of new features, side by side with full-stack developer.
  • Mediating sprint planning between tech team and stakeholders.

๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป Data Scientist

๐Ÿข Department of Economics, Business and Statistics - University of Palermo
๐Ÿ“… 05/2020 - 09/2021
โš’๏ธ "Development and validation of a pilot platform for the authentication, traceability & certification of innovative single breed sheep dairy products."

  • Analysis of data by sicilian dairy production and related genetic sequences for quality control and traceability.
  • Processes boost and automation through programming language.
  • Shiny App for internal use.

๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป Data Scientist & Researcher

๐Ÿข EEB LAB - Department of Earth and Sea Sciences
๐Ÿ“… 02/2019 - 09/2020
โš’๏ธ Scientific research and researchers' support in Ecology Research Lab of University of Palermo.

  • Collaboration in writing 5+ research papers (see "Publications" section).
  • Modeling, plotting and managing bioecological data for statistical analysis.
  • Coding efficient and robust scripts in R to enhance processes and complex analysis.

๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป Health Statistician

๐Ÿข Az. Osp. Ospedali Riuniti Villa Sofia - Cervello
๐Ÿ“… 07/2019 - 06/2020
โš’๏ธ Development of diagnostic therapeutic care pathways for the prevention and management of pathologies induced by drugs and anticancer therapies.

  • Managing data in cardiology department.

  • Data analysis of medical records to investigate on benefits and collateral effects of chemotherapy drugs.

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ TECHNICAL SKILLS

๐Ÿงฎ R โ˜… โ˜… โ˜… โ˜… โ˜…

Shiny, Rmarkdown, tidyverse, ggplot2, caret, tidymodels, modeltime, spatial analysis & tons of other packages for fun!

๐Ÿ Python โ˜… โ˜… โ˜… โ˜…

NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Plotly, spaCy, Keras, TensorFlow, FastAPI and much more.

๐Ÿ“Š Data

Statistical modeling, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data wrangling, Interactive Dashboarding, Data visualisation and Data engineering.

๐Ÿ”ฌ Analysis

Stronger with tabular data, timeseries, statistical analysis & modeling and machine learning; tasted NLP and CV.

๐Ÿ”ง Worked with

Rest APIs, Docker, AI Agents, MongoDB, SQL, NoSQL Google Cloud Platform, GitHub, Web Apps Design & Development.

๐Ÿ“š Vibed with

JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React.

๐ŸŽ“ Continuous autonomous supplementary education

Many different courses on Coursera, Udemy, manuals and more.


๐Ÿš€ COOL THINGS

๐ŸŒŸ Nova Talent Membership

05/2021 - Present

  • Nova is the merit-based access network where the top 3% of talent connect with each other, develop and accelerate their careers.

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Data Driven People - Podcast

04/2021 - Present

  • I produced 20 episodes and live contents with some of the best Italian data scientists & similar professionists.

  • Maintaining a small Telegram community in which we share useful material, tips and tricks for data science.

  • Hosted in other podcasts/talks.

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๐Ÿ“š TEACHING EXPERIENCE

๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป Statistics Coach - Shareholder as Investor & Advisor

๐Ÿข ProfessionAI
๐Ÿ“… 10/2021 - Present
โš’๏ธ I wrote and recorded the first two courses of the Data Science Professional Path: Descriptive & Inferential Statistics for Data Scientist, both with quizzes, labs and exercises in R language.

โ€ข I support enrolled students in a Discord community.

๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป Biostatistics for Ecology

๐Ÿข University of Palermo
๐Ÿ“… 2019 - 2020
โš’๏ธ Lectures for ecology BSc and MSc courses.

โ€ข Training course of statistical modeling for my colleagues at research lab.

๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป Statistics tutor and occasional freelance consultant

๐Ÿข Freelance
๐Ÿ“… 2017 - 2021
โš’๏ธ Private tutoring, consulence and data analysis for scientific papers, dissertations or business.

โ€ข Teaching & administration support at university master "Data Science & Big Data Analytics".


๐Ÿ“„ PUBLICATIONS

๐Ÿ‹ Cetacean presence and distribution in the central Mediterranean Sea and potential risks deriving from plastic pollution
12 / 2021 - Research Paper - Statistical analysis (See Acknowledgements)
Managing, summarizing, modeling and plotting spatio-temporal satellite data. I worked about Species Distribution Modelling, fitting and tuning five different statistical and machine learning models (GLM, GAM, RF, GBM, MaxEnt), to ensemble then all predictions in a metamodel.

๐Ÿฆช The entangled multi-level responses of Mytilus galloprovincialis (Lamarck, 1819) to environmental stressors as detected by an integrated approach
06 / 2021 - Research Paper - Statistical analysis (See Acknowledgements)
I contributed with Kaplan-Meier estimator and a multivariate Cox proportional hazards regression model in survival analysis.

๐ŸŒ Multiple climate-driven cascading ecosystem effects after the loss of a foundation species
01 / 2021 - Research Paper - Statistical analysis (See Acknowledgements)
I contributed with the whole statistical analysis (2.6) and almost everything about data visualization. I performed survival analysis with Kaplan-Meier estimator, statistical tests and different regression techniques (GLM, GLMM, ANOVA).

๐ŸŸ Functional trait-based layers - an aquaculture siting tool for the Mediterranean Sea
10 / 2020 - Research Paper - Author
Full implementation in R of Dynamic Energy Budget model for sea bass. Creation of an indicator of efficiency-sustainability for aquaculture. Summarising and mapping results across Mediterranean coasts and countries.

๐ŸŸ Moving Toward a Strategy for Addressing Climate Displacement of Marine Resources: A Proof-of-Concept
07 / 2020 - Research Paper - Author
Full implementation in R of Dynamic Energy Budget model for anchovies. Sensitivity analysis on inputs variables of the model. Geospatial analysis.

๐Ÿงช Presepsin and Midregional Proadrenomedullin in Pediatric Oncologic Patients with Febrile Neutropenia
03 / 2020 - Research Paper - Author
Statistical modeling with GLMs.


๐ŸŒ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES & EXPERIENCES

๐Ÿซ Estimating the effect of lung cancer screening on interventional pulmonology procedures in Italy
2024 - Conference Abstract
European Respiratory Journal 2024
DOI LINK

๐Ÿซ Biomathematics ESMTB Summer School 2019: "Modelling in Marine Ecology" (08/2019)
European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology
โ€ข Summer School.

๐Ÿ“ฃ The 2nd CISAS Biomathematics Workshop - CNR Palermo (10/2019)
International Centre of advanced study in environment, ecosystem and human health
โ€ข My talk: "Using R to run biophysical models to study biological performances of marine organisms".

โœˆ๏ธ Youthpass - T.I.M.E. (Time banks Information, Meeting and Exchange) (08/2016)
Erasmus+
โ€ข Learning mobility projects of youth workers support the professional development of youth workers by enabling them to acquire new skills and professional experience.

๐ŸŽญ Youthpass - Unmask the Theatre (10/2014)
Erasmus+
โ€ข Another project as above.

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Intermediate English Language Course (level B2) at Manhattan College, New York (07/2010)
LSI Language Studies International
โ€ข Summer school.

๐ŸŽ“ EDUCATION

๐ŸŽ“ MSc Statistical Sciences

University of Palermo
09/2016 - 10/2018
110/110

๐ŸŽ“ BSc Statistics for Data Analysis

University of Palermo
09/2012 - 07/2016
98/110


๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ LANGUAGES

Italian
Native or Bilingual Proficiency

English
Full Professional Proficiency


๐Ÿ“‹ REFERENCES

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