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Gian Luigi D'Alessandro is an AI Research Engineer working on the training, evaluation, and production infrastructure for agentic systems. He was previously co-founder and CTO of Unakin, where he developed autonomous coding agents on custom-trained LLMs using full fine-tuning and LoRA pipelines, oversaw a multi-agent orchestration system deployed to enterprise customers, managed GPU training infrastructure, and led a team of six after raising a pre-seed round. Earlier, he completed a PhD in particle physics at Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London, based at CERN, leading distributed data processing for high-energy physics experiments.
CTO at Unakin
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Experience
- StealthAI Research Engineercurrent2026 — presentLondon Area, United Kingdom
- UnakinCo-founder and CTO2023 — 2026London Area, United Kingdom
- Entrepreneur FirstIncoming Founder2022 — 2023London Area, United Kingdom
- DeloitteData Engineer, AI & Data Group2022Geneva, Switzerland
- CERNDoctoral Student, Particle Physics and Data Analysis - CERN Scholarship2018 — 2021Geneva Area, Switzerland
- University of California, BerkeleyResearch Associate, Particle Physics and Data Analysis - UC Berkeley Fellowship2016Berkeley, California
- CERNTechnical Student, Particle Physics and Data Analysis - CERN Scholarship2015 — 2016Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Skills & more
Artificial Intelligence (AI)6generative AI6Game Development6Game Design6Data Science6Statistics6Programming6Deep Learning6Unity7Augmented Reality (AR)7Virtual Reality (VR)7Blender6
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Data AnalysisC++SimulationsElectrical EngineeringPhysicsMathematicsMathematical AnalysisANSYSPython (Programming Language)linuxFortranMicrosoft ExcelLanguages English · French · Italian · Spanish
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- Who is Gian Luigi D'Alessandro?
- Gian Luigi D'Alessandro is an AI Research Engineer working on the training, evaluation, and production infrastructure for agentic systems. He was previously co-founder and CTO of Unakin, where he developed autonomous coding agents on custom-trained LLMs using full fine-tuning and LoRA pipelines, oversaw a multi-agent orchestration system deployed to enterprise customers, managed GPU training infrastructure, and led a team of six after raising a pre-seed round. Earlier, he completed a PhD in particle physics at Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London, based at CERN, leading distributed data processing for high-energy physics experiments.
- Where does Gian Luigi D'Alessandro work?
- Gian Luigi D'Alessandro is CTO of Unakin.
- What companies did Gian Luigi D'Alessandro found?
- Gian Luigi D'Alessandro founded Unakin.
- Where did Gian Luigi D'Alessandro go to school?
- Gian Luigi D'Alessandro studied at University of Oxford (Associate Doctoral Student, Particle Physics and Data Analysis); Royal Holloway, University of London (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Particle Physics and Data Analysis); Università del Salento (Bs+Ms, Particle Physics and Data Analysis).
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