I am Stefano, a passionate NLP Engineer, Craftsman, and Explorer 🧭.
Contributing to Haystack, the LLM orchestration Framework.
About Me ✨
💫 Structural Engineer turned Software Engineer with a passion for exploring the realms of Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing.
🔍 Formerly at 01S for 5 years, I specialized in information extraction and retrieval from unstructured documents, making valuable information accessible to Italian citizens.
💙 Currently, I am proud to be part of deepset, contributing to Haystack, the open-source LLM Framework 🏗️. I enjoy engaging with a vibrant community of users and contributors.
In my spare time:
- I often take meditative walks 🚶
- I dedicate myself to social volunteering ⭐
- I am part of a theatre group, I read, I watch films... 🎨
- 🔎 BM42: a new ranking algorithm for hybrid RAG (post + notebook)
- 🎤 yo-Llama 🦙: altering the behavior of a LLM by amplifying a feature direction in the activation space (post + model + notebook)
- 🌌 Creating adventures with local LLMs: llamafile + Character Codex (post + notebook)
- RAG Evaluation with 🔥 Prometheus 2 (blog post + notebook)
- ⚙️ Prompt Optimization with Haystack + DSPy (post + notebook)