About me

Hi, I’m Giuseppe Papallo, a Mathematical Physicist turned Software Engineer.

I am currently a Staff Engineer at Evolution AI, where we use modern Machine Learning techniques to automatically extract information from PDFs and scanned documents. Here, I have been working on building complex web applications as well as developing some of the Machine Learning models that power our solutions. We also organise the London Machine Learning Meetup.

Previously, I completed a PhD in General Relativity at the University of Cambridge having published papers in leading international journals. You can find more details about my research here.

Open source projects

I enjoy writing software and occasionally take on small side projects outside of work. You can find most of them on my GitHub profile:

• rstr: a simple content-addressable blob-store written in Rust with a Python client.
• flask-pg-session: a Flask extension that implements server-side session support using PostgreSQL as a backend.

Beyond work

Music

I am a music geek. I really enjoy playing the guitar, the cavaquinho and some afro-brazilian percussion instruments, such as alfaia, agogô, repinique, etc.

I have a deep interest in Brazilian traditional music and I am part of a few percussion groups. I had the priviledge of playing alfaia for the Nação de Maracatu Porto Rico in the official parade of Recife’s Carnival in 2023 and for Baque de Axé in Notting Hill Carnival in 2019.

Photography

Photography is one of my passions. I mostly focus on documentary-style phography and I particularly enjoy working with analog methods. During my time at Cambridge, I also worked as a freelancer photographer for the Cambridge Union and CUBS.

You can see some of my work in my portfolio.

Cooking

I am a keen cook and love experimenting in the kitchen as well as learning about food-related traditions and techniques from all over the world. I am particularly interested in fermented foods.

Back in uni, my friend Bruno and I used to run @greedyscholars where we posted pictures of our culinary creations.