Davide Pollicino

🧩 Why Davide Stands Out • Deep experience delivering scalable, reliable services at Microsoft combined with a track record of guiding early-stage startups and high-achieving mentees. • Strong AI fluency across top-tier LLM platforms (OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure AI), leveraging AI to drive product innovation. • Recognized mentor, technical writer, and community member, motivating others to grow in engineering, cloud, and AI domains. 📚 Education & Foundations Graduated Computer Science from Edinburgh Napier University, with a strong competitive programming background and deep roots in software engineering and product strategy . 🛠️ Microsoft Engineering & R&D • Instrumental in modernizing Microsoft Teams “Slim‑core” desktop infrastructure for Windows 10/11—implementing reliability enhancements, test automation and feature rollout using C++, TypeScript, React, Node.js, GraphQL, Azure DevOps, JTest & Cypress . • Azure‑certified as an AI Engineer Associate, actively working with Azure AI services and integrating OpenAI models into enterprise workflows . 🚀 Startup Leadership & Mentorship • Serving as a mentor and advisor at Microsoft for Startups and MentorCruise, providing technical guidance across cloud‑scale architecture, product development, and AI/LLM strategy  . • Expertise in cloud platforms: Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with hands-on practice building Django/FastAPI backends, Flask services, microservices, and deploying LLM‑powered prototypes (). 🔍 AI & Emerging Tech • Early adopter of OpenAI APIs and Anthropic’s Claude models (e.g., ClaudieAI), exploring LLM-powered assistive features, intelligent prompting, retrieval‑augmented generation, and AI-driven developer tools. • Advocates for AI‑first product design, embedding generative AI into SaaS solutions to boost productivity and user engagement. ⚙️ Tech Stack & Certifications • Backend & APIs: Python (Django, FastAPI, Flask), C++, Node.js, GraphQL • Frontend: React, TypeScript, Ja