Mario Russo — Profile
About me

Mario Russo

AI/ML Engineer · RAG, LLM Evaluation & Backend Systems

I build and evaluate retrieval-augmented generation systems and production-oriented software. My work combines Python, machine learning, information retrieval, APIs, and backend engineering.

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Current focus
Retrieval & generation

RAG pipelines, chunking, embeddings, hybrid retrieval, reranking, and prompt design.

Evaluation & observability

Ragas, Langfuse, LLM-as-a-Judge, faithfulness, answer quality, and asset-aware metrics.

Selected AI/ML Projects

RAG for Technical Documentation

MSc thesis project for complex electronics manufacturing documents. I designed the retrieval pipeline, ran controlled ablation studies, and built evaluation and observability workflows.

PythonRAGRagasLangfuseLLMs

Package Theft Detection

Group project developing a real-time edge computer-vision pipeline for Arduino-class hardware, using FOMO localization and a compressed face encoder.

Group projectPythonArduinoEdge ML

Medical QA with LLMs

Group project comparing question-answering pipelines over curated medical data, combining indexing, clustering, embedding generation, and transformer fine-tuning.

Group projectPythonNLPTransformers

Hardware Failure Classification

Group project covering an alarm time-series classification pipeline, model comparison, class-imbalance methods, and SHAP explanations.

Group projectScikit-learnXGBoostSHAP
Technical Skills
AI/ML & GenAI
  • RAG and embeddings
  • LLM evaluation
  • Transformers and Scikit-learn
  • TensorFlow and SHAP
Backend & APIs
  • Python and FastAPI
  • PHP and Laravel
  • REST APIs
  • Vue and React
Data
  • Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib
  • PostgreSQL and MySQL
  • MongoDB and Qdrant
  • SQL and vector search
Developer tools
  • Git and GitHub Actions
  • Docker and CI/CD
  • Grafana and Prometheus
  • Langfuse and Bash
Experience

Mirai Software · Software Development Supervisor

Jan 2025 – Aug 2025

  • Translated client requirements into technical tasks and coordinated delivery.
  • Reviewed code, managed production releases, and monitored applications with Grafana and Prometheus.

Mirai Software · Full Stack Developer

Apr 2023 – Dec 2024

  • Built Python services for catalog synchronization and external API integrations.
  • Developed business applications with FastAPI, Laravel, Filament, Vue, React, and Docker.

Yeet Robotics · Backend Developer

Aug 2022 – Mar 2023

  • Built monitoring and data-collection tools for retail websites.
  • Reverse engineered APIs and profiled legacy code to improve integrations.
Education
InstitutionDegreePeriod
Politecnico di MilanoMSc Computer Science and Engineering — Artificial Intelligence2022 – 2026
Università “Luigi Vanvitelli”BSc Computer and Electronic Engineering2018 – 2021
Contact
Email

mario@russomario.xyz

LinkedIn

linkedin.com/in/russomarioxyz

GitHub

github.com/russomario

Available for AI/ML and AI-backend roles

Italy