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Lorenzo Palaia
Software Engineer | Computer and Automatic Engineering Graduate
Crypto enthusiast, passionate about programming, artificial intelligence, blockchain, finance and traveling. Computer and Automatic Engineering graduate at Sapienza University of Rome. Currently working as a freelance fullstack developer.
Sapienza Flight Team
Computer Vision Software Engineer
Developed object detection and terrain mapping systems for a UAV, training YOLOv5/EfficientNet models with custom datasets
Designed and implemented communication protocols between UAV and Ground Station from scratch, developing a Flask‑based API and revamping the GUI
Collaborated in a subteam of 5 within a 60‑member team, migrating the entire Flight Team workflow to Slack
Earned a 15th position out of 71 entries for the Technical Design Paper in the AUVSI SUAS competition
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