Senior AI Engineer & Full-Stack Developer — London / Italy / Remote EU

Hi! I build systems that fix problems.

Hi, I'm Gabriele. I'm a senior AI engineer and full-stack developer, I work with brands and companies in advertising, media and marketing on generative AI, computer vision and automation, built and run in-house.

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Who I am

Agencies come to me in two different moments: some have an idea worth testing before it gets a real budget, others already have something running that needs to be steadier, faster or ready to scale. Either way, the job is the same: build it properly, so it still holds up long after the pitch or the first release.

“I think in systems. Years moving between full-stack development, computer vision, machine learning and generative AI taught me to spot the same patterns wherever they turn up, and combine them in ways that aren't obvious from inside a single field.”

Services

Four areas I keep coming back to, each one adaptable to wherever your business is right now.

Service

Generative AI for Asset Production

Custom-trained diffusion and LLM pipelines that generate on-brand assets for social campaigns and TV ads, in-house.

  • - Fine-tuned diffusion models on client data
  • - Inference platforms with worker orchestration
  • - Backend-managed generation, UI for designers
  • - Cuts cost and turnaround vs traditional production

Service

Computer Vision for Analysis & Automation

Segmentation, detection and masking pipelines that turn raw footage and imagery into usable signal.

  • - Detection, segmentation and masking
  • - Automated media QA and tagging
  • - OpenCV, FFmpeg and Moviepy pipelines
  • - Risk, PR and case analysis tooling

Service

Consultancy for MVPs & Production Systems

From a fast prototype that proves the idea to a stable, scalable system your team can rely on in production.

  • - Technical feasibility and architecture reviews
  • - Rapid prototyping for new AI capabilities
  • - Production-grade builds designed to scale
  • - Systems-thinking approach to messy problems

Service

Agentic & AI Automation

Internal tools and automations that quietly raise the ceiling on what your business can ship.

  • - Agentic workflows and orchestration
  • - Internal productivity tooling
  • - RAG and knowledge-grounded systems
  • - Cloud-native, containerised deployment

Case in point

I built an in-house platform that trains and serves custom diffusion and language models on a client's own data, with a simple interface their designers use directly to generate campaign and TV-ad assets. No waiting on an external studio, no back-and-forth — a backend handles the compute, the workers and the delivery behind the scenes. What used to take a production company weeks now happens in-house, at a fraction of the cost, without losing quality or control.

Most of the work I do sits under NDA, so I keep the fuller portfolio and case studies for the call rather than posting them here.

Also worth mentioning

Another project I'm proud of: a voice AI agent built to waste scammers' time on the phone, keeping them talking to a bot instead of a real victim.

That one has picked up some recognition: a BIMA100 AI & Tech Pioneers listing, four Cannes Lions, a Shorty, a Webby and a Gold at the British Arrows.

Skillset

A wide, deliberately cross-disciplinary toolkit: development, 3D, computer vision, machine learning and generative AI.

Development

Golang · Python · TypeScript · FastAPI · Angular · Astro · Solid.js · Azure · AWS · Runpod · Docker · K8s · Vector databases

3D

Blender · RealityScan · Litchfield Studio · 3D Gaussian Splatting · 3D object generation

Computer Vision

Segmentation · Detection · Masking · OpenCV · Pillow · FFmpeg · Moviepy

Machine Learning

CNNs · Vision Transformers · Random Forest · PyTorch · TensorFlow · Reinforcement Learning · Model evaluation & benchmarking

Generative AI

Transformers · Diffusers · LLMs · Diffusion Models · RAG · LangChain · LangSmith · Agentic Development · Fine-tuning & LoRA · Model quantization & serving · Prompt engineering · RAG evaluation & observability · MCP & agent protocols

Tools

ComfyUI · GitHub Actions · Jira · Float · Adobe Suite

Who I work for

I work with businesses of any size. What changes from one client to the next is the scope of the project, and the cost adjusts accordingly, based on what's needed and how much time it takes.

In practice, that's often small, fast-moving companies who need to move quicker than a bigger studio or agency ever could, but I'm just as open to fixed-term freelance work with larger organisations. Always happy to have a conversation.

  • Startups
  • Advertising
  • Media Production
  • Marketing
  • Creative Independent Labs
  • AdTech
  • Early-stage / bootstrapped companies

On AI, ethics & open source

I have a firm view on using AI responsibly: data gets stored safely and used only with permission, no exceptions. That's a default in how I build, not something bolted on afterwards.

I'm also a strong believer in open source. I build on open models and open tooling because the community has already done excellent work worth building on, and I try to give back by maintaining and sharing open-source repositories of my own whenever I can.

Frequently asked questions

Common questions from HR teams, agencies and companies looking to hire a freelance AI engineer.

Let's talk

The fastest way in is a free 30-min intro call. Bring the problem, I'll bring the questions.

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Hybrid — London, UK & Italy (by arrangement) · Remote across Europe