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Yutaro Watanabe

Address: Via Alserio, 1 Milano 20159, Italy | Mobile: +39 338-158-9429

Email: yutaro@protonmail.com | GitHub: taro-watanabe | LinkedIn: yutarowatanabe

Work Status: EU Work Permit – Italy (Permesso di Soggiorno)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Milan, Italy
Jun. 2026 - Present
Application Engineer
Mollie
  • Application engineer at Mollie, an Amsterdam-based payments fintech whose single-API platform processes online and in-person payments for businesses across 30+ EEA countries.
Milan, Italy
Oct. 2020 - May 2026
Data Scientist & Software Engineer
Quick Algorithm Analytics S.r.l
  • As an early-stage data scientist and software engineer, played a key role in the 'zero-to-one' product development from its alpha stage and continued to drive the 'one-to-million' scaling phase for clients like Angelini Pharma, Ducati, Brembo, and Pfizer.
  • Engineered and deployed the company's signature anomaly detection algorithm, enabling predictive maintenance that has saved clients millions by preventing machinery failures.
  • Designed and built scalable MLOps pipelines for critical SaaS features, including ML-powered machinery diagnostics and an innovative 'Talk-with-Data' LLM-based analytics tool.
Milan, Italy
Jul. 2020 - Dec. 2020
Research Assistant
Bocconi University & London Business School
  • Participated as an assistant for a joint research for Moreno & Crilly.
  • Research covered topics on managerial and financial decision-making from temporal perspectives.
  • Worked on data collection, EDA, and algorithmic analysis on text-based data related to various economic and financial news vs. financial activities such as short-selling, etc.

EDUCATION

Atlanta, GA, USA
Sept 2021 – Aug 2023
Georgia Institute of Technology
Master's in Analytics – Computational Data Analytics
  • Completed remotely whilst working full-time, partially due to COVID-19, partially due to financial motives.
  • Relevant coursework: Computational Data Analytics, Analytics Modeling, Deep Learning, Data & Visual Analytics, Simulation, etc.
  • Thesis & Practicum: Statistical & empirical analysis to reverse-engineer micro-edge models running on a closed-source industrial-grade vibration sensor.
Milan, Italy
Sept 2018 – Jul 2021
Bocconi University
Bachelor's in Economics & Computer Science
  • Relevant coursework: Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Econometrics, Multivariate Calculus, Linear Algebra, etc.
  • Thesis: A comprehensive analysis of missing imputation techniques and its performance on ML models. Created and delivered a benchmarking suite alongside diagnostic tools to judge the best-suited imputation method for a specific dataset & task.

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