Ciao, I'm Daniel Pappalardo

Software Engineering Student and Business Analyst

Passionate about building innovative solutions and learning new technologies. Currently in my final year of the Master's degree in SE at TU Vienna.

Experience

Bridging academic theory and industry practice through internships and student associations

Software Engineer

TU Wien Racing

Member of the university's racing team. Part of the Driverless module, making sure our EDGE17 will be able to complete its first ever official race fully autonomously in summer 2026

PythonC++ROS2SLAM
Vienna, AT

Data and AI Consulting Intern

PwC Germany

Helped explore applications of RAG and GenAI within the company itself (ChatPwC) and participated in data governance projects with major companies in the financial service sector

AzureRAGPowerPoint
October 2024 - April 2025

Business Intelligence Intern

Fruitservice Srl

Worked for the Lidl's main fruit and vegetable supplier in the data analytics department. Supported information mining and extraction, dashboards and internal data presentation.

PythonAzureExcel
Bolzano, IT

(Co-Founding) Member

Bocconi Students for Machine Learning

Was one of the co-founding members of BSML, helped out kicking it off and participated in a hackathon with a team of members

PythonMLNLP
May 2022 - July 2024

Risk Management Intern

Alperia SpA

Supported in the live data presentation pipeline, creating dashboards summarizing power and gas pricing along with major global economic indexes

PowerBIExcel
Bolzano, IT

Global Marketing Intern

Loacker AG

Created tri-lingual content for the 2023 Loacker campaign and helped out with event and product management as well as campaign analytics

ExcelOffice365
June 2022 - September 2022

Projects

Covering a range of application fields and technologies

College Project

RelationalSeeder

Wintersemester 2025

A full stack project for Advanced Software Engineering class at TU Vienna: A web application that allows the intuitive creation of fake relational data to jumpstart projects and demos

KotlinSpring BootTypeScriptReactLangChain
College Project

Skipass Demand Prediction using KGs

Summersemester 2025

Full Stack web application powered by a knowledge graph backend in Neo4J using data from the open weather portals of the North Italian regions. The goal of the project was to apply Knowledge Graph Embeddings such as TransE and RotatE for graph completion and link prediction and prove its real life applicability, e.g. in the winter entertainment industry

Neo4jPythonHTMLCSS
College Project

Fantasy Soccer DApp

Developed a decentralized application (DApp) for fantasy soccer for a Smart Contracts class. The project focused on security, role-based-authentication, token generation and draft mechanism design.

SolidityJavaScript
College Project

Atari Breakout with Reinforcement Learning

Implemented an Atari Breakout game (both front and backend) with a human player and an AI agent mode. The latter was trained using reinforcement learning with monte carlo and exploring starts.

PythonHTML

Fun Facts & Interests

From the peaks of the Dolomites to the streets of Singapore—adventures that shaped my perspective

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Lived on 3 continents

Traveling

I am fluent in German, Italian and English, lived abroad in the US for a year and Singapore for an entire semester. Love to explore new places, taste new food and meet new cultures. Most of the money I earned so far myself went into flight tickets and hostel stays

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Your personal pizzaiolo

Food

My kitchen is a place where Italian heritage meets global curiosity; while I’ll always stand by my risotto and espresso, I’m just as likely to be found experimenting with soy sauce and ginger as I am with basil and olive oil.

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If it involves the outdoors or a ball, I am down!

Sports

Alpine enthusiast: Skier by winter, hiker by summer (wannabe surfer too). Lifelong soccer player and huge fan. Proudly finished the 2025 Vienna City Marathon with an average pace of 4:59 min/km.

Get in Touch

Do not hesitate to reach out for further information, any possible collaboration or feedback

Contact Information

Location

Bolzano, Italy | Vienna, Austria