Francesco Cucari

Francesco Cucari is an experienced Engineering Manager and Senior Data Engineer at Spotify, where responsibilities include designing, optimizing, and launching efficient data pipelines, serving as a technical leader, and collaborating with stakeholders to build scalable data solutions. Prior roles at Spotify include Data Engineer and Edge Machine Learning Research Intern, focusing on developing large-scale data pipelines and machine learning models. Francesco began a career as a Machine Learning Research student at Ericsson, where a master thesis centered on AI systems for bug identification in software projects. Additionally, as the founder of Dizionario dei Rifiuti, Francesco led the development of Italy's first mobile recycling app. Academic credentials include master's degrees in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics from Sapienza Università di Roma and in Computer Science from Linköping University, complemented by a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Control Engineering from Sapienza Università di Roma.