Software Engineer · Zurich, Switzerland

Fabio Tagliani.

Distributed systems. Data infrastructure.
AI‑augmented engineering.

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MS CS, cum laude
Politecnico di Milano
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data-overhead reduction
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users of the banking app
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Fabio Tagliani

Engineering, end to end.

I'm a software engineer at UBS in Zurich, currently building the model-routing service for the bank's internal AI platform — after building data platforms and LLM agent tooling for its engineering workflow. Before UBS: hunting hypervisor bugs at HPE, and a master's thesis in the US building a C++ distributed protocol for drone swarms — consensus, cryptographic integrity, and hard numbers to prove it works.

I like systems you can measure: latency, throughput, fault tolerance. And I like shipping — from first design to monitored production deployment.

“When coding is magic.”

Where I've worked.

Aug 2026 — now

UBS · Software Engineer — MLOps / AI-as-a-Service Platform

Building the model-routing service for the bank's internal AI platform — directing each prompt to the best-suited model across self-hosted vLLM endpoints and Azure AI Foundry, running on Kubernetes. Provisioning the supporting Azure infrastructure as code.

PythonvLLMKubernetesTerraformAzure
Feb — Aug 2026

UBS · Software Engineer — Mobile Payments / AI-Augmented Engineering

Part of UBS's AI-augmented engineering practice: wiring MCP tool definitions into agent harnesses so LLM agents could assist with code analysis and review. Authored multithreaded test suites, wired in as release gates, catching concurrency regressions before they reached production.

SwiftLLM agentsXCTestCI/CD
Sept 2025 — Jan 2026

UBS · Software Engineer — Risk & Data Platform

Designed Python ETL pipelines correlating 2M+ rows from 300+ production apps across EMEA into real-time dashboards — cutting manual triage by 35%. Deployed through CI-gated pipelines with RBAC and audit logging.

PythonSQLTypeScriptGitLab CI/CD
2025

Hewlett Packard Enterprise · Software & Virtualization Engineer

Isolated 20+ critical defects in HPE VM Essentials pre-production — root-causing through Linux log analysis and KVM/hypervisor cross-checks, automating failure reproduction with Python, Bash, Docker and Kubernetes.

LinuxKVMDockerKubernetes
2024

Master's Thesis Researcher · Politecnico di Milano / NECSTLab — visiting @ Florida Atlantic University

Built SAHARA: a C++ data-dissemination architecture for infrastructure-less drone swarms — reputation-based consensus, SHA-256 block-chaining, Bloom-filter reconciliation. Validated over 500+ automated NS-3 campaigns up to 196 nodes.

C++NS-3Crypto++Python

Master's thesis

SAHARA.
A swarm that agrees.

196 drones. No infrastructure. Every node must trust the data it receives — so SAHARA chains it with SHA-256, reconciles it with Bloom filters, and votes on it with reputation-based consensus.

  • 37× less data overhead than flooding
  • 36% lower packet loss vs. DSDV
  • O(n1.47) empirical scaling, measured — not guessed
sahara — ns3 · campaign 412/500

      
polycopy — live worker
WSSactivity streamconnected
FAKorder routed · slippage 0.4%filled
RISKdaily cap 62% · positions 4/10ok

Personal project · 2026

Polycopy.
On-chain, in real time.

A copy-trading engine for Polymarket (Polygon/EVM). It watches target wallets over a WebSocket stream, reconciles against the Data API, and routes FAK orders through the CLOB — with slippage caps, per-trader limits, crash-safe state, and AES-256-GCM-encrypted credentials.

Deployed on AWS EC2 behind a GitHub Actions CI/CD gate. Ships its own paper-trading Test Lab simulating market impact, latency, and partial fills.

TypeScriptviemWebSocketsDockerAWS

Things I've built.

🛰️

SAHARA

C++ distributed data dissemination for drone swarms — consensus, SHA-256 chaining, Bloom filters. 500+ simulation campaigns.

C++NS-3Python
🔒 Private repo
📈

Polycopy

Real-time on-chain copy-trading engine for Polymarket — WSS ingestion, FAK execution, full risk layer. 4.5K+ LOC.

TypeScriptEVMAWS
🔒 Private repo
🎯

Swiss Tech Job Radar

Job-market intelligence webapp — 7 ATS integrations, 24 companies, explainable CV-fit scoring, optional local-LLM matching.

TypeScriptReact 19Node.js
🔒 Private repo
⛷️

SkiWay

Full-stack geospatial platform — 80K+ LOC. Swift/CoreML client over a Python/GDAL pipeline, sub-100ms p99 tile latency on AWS.

SwiftPythonPostgreSQL
🧠

MLSys 2026 Competition

C++ operator-graph scheduling solver for the MLSys 2026 competition, produced by an agent-driven development loop I designed and ran — I owned the architecture, the evaluation contract and the submission review.

C++ML systemsAgent-driven
🔒 Private repo
⛓️

B4M — Blockchain for Mesh Networks

Applying blockchain structures to infrastructure-less mesh networks — the research seed that grew into SAHARA.

PythonBlockchain
🌳

Red-Black Tree KV — Solidity

Gas-efficient on-chain key-value store built on a Red-Black Tree, exploring EVM storage-cost trade-offs.

SolidityEVM
🦀

Deep Battleship

Fully on-chain Battleship on Solana — game logic and state as a Rust smart contract built with the Anchor framework.

RustSolanaAnchor
🧩

Parallel Maze Solver

8× speedup on a 16-node cluster for mazes up to 64M pixels — distributed search with OpenMPI.

C++OpenMPI
⚙️

EVM Internals

Digging into execution clients: evmone AOT-compiler and go-ethereum — understanding the EVM below the bytecode.

C++GoEVM
✈️

Whooliday

Native iOS travel app — SwiftUI, clean architecture, Apple Developer Program member.

SwiftSwiftUI

The toolbox.

Languages

C++PythonRustTypeScriptSwiftJavaSoliditySQLBash

Distributed & Systems

Distributed designConsensusFault toleranceOpenMPINS-3Latency / throughputMultithreading

AI & Agents

Model routingvLLMAzure AI FoundryLLM agent orchestrationMCPPyTorchClaude Code

Infra & Data

LinuxDockerKubernetesTerraformKVMAWSAzurePostgreSQLETL pipelinesCI/CDObservability

Education & honors.

MS Computer Science & Engineering

Politecnico di Milano · 2022 — 2024

110/110 cum laude

BS Computer & Electronic Engineering

University of Pavia · 2018 — 2021

98/110

Honors

  • IARIA publication — CNN-based Image Quality Assessment (2022)
  • Claude Code 101 — Anthropic Academy (2026)
  • GitHub Copilot Certification — Microsoft (2026)
  • Azure Fundamentals AZ-900 — Microsoft (2025)
  • Cohort Mentor & Workshop Lead — UBS Graduate Program

Let's build
something.

Zurich, Switzerland · open to interesting problems.