Freelance AI and back-end engineer. I build automation, agentic systems, and document AI — things like due diligence platforms for private markets, AI telephony with real-time agent assist, and autonomous agents that bootstrap entire companies end-to-end. Strong in LLMs, RAG, agentic workflows, real-time audio, and graph databases. MSc from Tsinghua-Berkeley, BEng from Politecnico di Torino. Based in Italy, available remotely worldwide.

Riccardo Mattesini

Freelance AI and back-end engineer. I build automation, agentic systems, and document AI — things like due diligence platforms for private markets, AI telephony with real-time agent assist, and autonomous agents that bootstrap entire companies end-to-end. Strong in LLMs, RAG, agentic workflows, real-time audio, and graph databases. MSc from Tsinghua-Berkeley, BEng from Politecnico di Torino. Based in Italy, available remotely worldwide.

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Freelance AI and back-end engineer. I build automation, agentic systems, and document AI — things like due diligence platforms for private markets, AI telephony with real-time agent assist, and autonomous agents that bootstrap entire companies end-to-end. Strong in LLMs, RAG, agentic workflows, real-time audio, and graph databases. MSc from Tsinghua-Berkeley, BEng from Politecnico di Torino. Based in Italy, available remotely worldwide.

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Work Experience

Lead Back-End & AI Engineer at Sharelock
January 1, 2025 - Present
Designed and built an AI-driven due diligence platform for private markets, automating analysis of unstructured financial documents. Architected document AI pipelines (LLMs, RAG, structured extraction) and agentic workflows, reducing analyst review time by 30-40%. Tech stack included Python, Gemini/OpenAI, vector databases, GCP and AWS.
Lead Developer at X 80 Security
January 1, 2022 - Present
Led technical strategy and engineering across a portfolio of AI products spanning cyber security, sales enablement, and business automation. Shipped an attack-graph security platform (Neo4j, NetworkX); AI telephony for insurance sales with real-time sentiment and agent assistance; implemented autonomous agent that boots traps end-to-end (domains, sites, emails, ads). Architected systems across LLMs, agent workflows, graph databases, and real-time audio.

Education

MSc - Data Science and Information Technology at Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute, Shenzhen, CN
January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2022
Double BEng - Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Torino, Turin, IT
January 1, 2015 - January 1, 2019

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Software & Internet, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment