Andrea Michi

CTO depthfirst | ex-DeepMind

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Bridging the gap between elegant research ideas and a messy real world.

Experience

  • Co-Founder & CTO at depthfirst
    Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

    Autonomous Security From Design To Production. We are hiring!

  • Google DeepMind (Full-time · 6 yrs 9 mos)
    • Staff Research Engineer
      Nov 2023 - Dec 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Reinforcement Learning for Gemini post-training (reasoning/coding)

    • Senior Research Engineer
      Jan 2021 - Oct 2023 · 2 yrs 10 mos

      Tech Lead of AlphaDev: Reinforcement Learning for algorithms optimizations * Published in Nature * Made std::sort >2% faster * Made abseil hashing for flat_hash_maps >30% faster

    • Research Engineer
      Oct 2019 - Dec 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

      Grid optimisation and Renewable Energy forecasting (>20% improvement on wind power forecasting)

  • Software Engineer at Google
    Oct 2016 - Apr 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos

    Google Maps - Notifications infrastructure for GMB (Google My Business).

  • Software Engineer Intern at Google
    Apr 2015 - Sep 2015 · 6 mos

    YouTube - Indexing and Data Analysis of Videos, Channels, and Playlists.

  • Undergraduate Teaching Assistant at Imperial College London
    Oct 2014 - Mar 2015 · 6 mos

    Tutoring a group of 8 first-year students in programming (Haskell and Java).