Edoardo
Ferrante
Lead Data Scientist | MLOps & ML Strategy
About
Lead Data Scientist with 7+ years of experience delivering end-to-end data products in domains including insurance, education, and retail. Proven ability to scale ML systems from prototype to production, drive MLOps adoption, and deliver measurable impact. Passionate about aligning data initiatives with business goals and building high-performing interdisciplinary teams.
Experience
Lead Data Scientist @ Education First
- Took ownership of cross-functional stakeholder alignment for the Conversion Model, driving its evolution to support new markets and business priorities.
- Leading Value-Based Bidding: a performance marketing initiative optimizing ad spend based on customer lifetime value projections.
- Overseeing Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM) to quantify the ROI of marketing channels and support budget allocation decisions.
Zürich, Switzerland
Oct 2024 - CURRENT
Oct 2024 - CURRENT
Senior Data Scientist @ Education First
- Led a cross-functional team of 4 (2 Data Scientists, 1 Software Engineer, and 1 Platform Engineer) to design, deploy, and iterate on a predictive lead scoring system, boosting conversion rates by 80% and contributing to 40% revenue growth.
- Architected and implemented an MLOps pipeline, first custom-built and later migrated to MLflow on AWS ECS, enabling weekly retraining, real-time evaluation, and seamless deployment of models.
- Developed an LightGBM-based regression model to predict lead conversion probability from CRM and sales activity data, optimizing prioritization of sales outreach.
Zürich, Switzerland
May 2023 - Oct 2024
May 2023 - Oct 2024
Senior Data Scientist @ Reale Mutua Assicurazioni
- Led development of an underwriting support dashboard integrating customer history, predicted future pathologies using Recommender Systems, 5-year cost estimates, and automated renewal triage (green/yellow/red semaphore), resulting in a 2.3% reduction in claim costs.
- Designed and deployed a document processing platform serving over 1 million customers, centered around an Azure ML + LayoutLM pipeline for metadata extraction and routing.
- Managed two downstream systems:
- Accident report parser (vision + BERT models),
- Invoice data extractor (external vendor),
- Acted as technical and delivery lead, aligning business stakeholders, IT teams (legacy system integration), and external vendors to deliver production-grade solutions.
Turin, Italy
Oct 2019 - May 2023
Oct 2019 - May 2023
Data Scientist @ Var Group S.p.A.
- Progressed from intern to full-time data scientist, contributing across the stack from Big Data architecture (Hadoop) to BI dashboards and ML solutions for SMEs.
- Developed a system to predict and allocate insurance premiums across a regional consortium of skilift operators, using customer and usage data to inform fair risk-sharing.
- Built a product-feature-based forecasting model for a fashion retailer to predict demand for non-returning SKUs.
Genoa, Italy
May 2017 - Oct 2019
May 2017 - Oct 2019
Publications
Edoardo Ferrante. 2024
A High-quality Seed Dataset for Italian Machine Translation
Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Machine Translation, pages 567-569, Miami.
Association for Computational Linguistics.
Association for Computational Linguistics.
Stefano Lusito, Edoardo Ferrante, Jean Maillard. 2023
Text normalization for low-resource languages: the case of Ligurian
In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages, pages 98–103, Remote.
Association for Computational Linguistics.
Association for Computational Linguistics.
Skills
- ML & Modeling: LightGBM, Pytorch, Scikit-learn, CNNs, Recommender Systems, NLP, Computer Vision, LLMs, Auto-encoders
- MLOps & Infrastructure: MLflow, AWS, CI/CD, Docker, Azure ML, Terraform, Git
- Languages: Python, SQL, Haskell, Bash
Certificates
Education
Master Degree in Computer Engineering, Università degli Studi di Genova
- Thesis: “A Big Data Architecture: From Ingestion to Analytics.”
Genoa, Italy
Oct 2015 - Dec 2017
Oct 2015 - Dec 2017
Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering, Università degli Studi di Genova
Genoa, Italy
Oct 2012 - Oct 2015
Oct 2012 - Oct 2015
Languages
Italian
Native
English
Full professional proficiency
Ligurian
Professional working proficiency
Spanish
Limited working proficiency
German
Elementary proficiency
Navajo
Elementary proficiency