Valerio Velardo Email & Phone Number

Málaga, Al, Es

Málaga, Al, Es

Málaga, Andalusia, Es

You need to hire an AI audio engineer or build a full team from scratch, but don’t know where to find AI audio / music experts. Maybe you are not sure about what skills you should look for in potential candidates, nor have the knowledge to evaluate them.At The Sound of AI Recruitment, we find the best audio / music / speech AI talent leveraging our industry network and The Sound of AI Community, the largest online music AI community.We have experience finding talent for tech startups, scale-ups and enterprises from all over the world. We know what you need. And we act fast.

Málaga, Andalusia, Es

The Sound of AI is the largest YouTube channel on AI audio/music. In the channel, I publish technical tutorials and business tips at the crossroads of AI, music, audio, and software development.The Sound of AI is also the largest online AI audio community with 6K members and counting. You can join it on Slack: https://valeriovelardo.com/the-sound-of-ai-community/

My work helps you with 5 problems. I’m primarily focused on music tech companies, but all companies with a focus on audio (e.g., voice, speech, sound) can benefit:- You have decided to build a new product powered by AI audio / music technology. Maybe you don’t have in-house AI audio talent. Perhaps you don’t know where to start researching the solution, nor you know how to develop the product and bring it to production. - You need a single (technical) consulting session to clear your doubts regarding an AI audio / music project you’re working on. Perhaps you need expert input on what you’ve built, or need to know which technical direction is the most promising. - You are developing an AI audio / music product with your team of generalist data scientists. Perhaps your AI team doesn’t have sufficient expertise in AI audio / Music Information Retrieval. Maybe your team requires continued guidance / mentoring to research, design, and implement the product. Or it requires expert feedback on what they have already built.- You want to devise an AI audio strategy, but don’t know what’s possible nor how to organise a realistic R&D plan, which accounts for your resources.

Zug, Ch

At Utopia Music, I lead the effort to build an MLOps infrastructure across the entire enterprise.In particular, I:- Established MLOps team from scratch - Hired MLOps engineers- Set team workflows and scrum - Act as scrum master- Liaise with internal ML stakeholders and understand their ML infrastructure need, running customer discovery sessions- Design MLOps solutions + frameworks- Manage and mentor MLOps team members. Grow ML leaders.- Developed ML library in Python- Built experiment tracking infrastructure- Evangelise AI inside the company from product managers to executives - Consult teams in different business units to suggest suitable ML solutions to apply to their problems.

Musimap is a B2B company that offers intelligent algorithms to classify and make sense of music data.At Musimap I:- Applied Machine Learning & Deep Learning to large-scale music analysis- Built music recommendation system- Developed music tagging system- Contributed to the Implementation of ML + AI technology stack - Ran in-depth evaluations of ML models - Liaised with the musicology department to harmonise the AI-driven and music-driven worlds - Mentored data scientists

Berlin, Brandenburg, De

Melodrive is a startup company that offers AI and data science consulting for music and media startups. - Led R&D team with 4 data scientists. - Outlined product and R&D strategy.- Developed music data pipeline for audio analysis.- Successfully launched AI music engine that generates video game music from scratch, now used by hundreds of indie devs.- Defined and implemented vision- Designed business strategy- Raised a VC round from Silicon Valley (undisclosed amount)- Contributed to design and develop product- Closed deals with clients- Managed client projects- Promoted Melodrive at events and with press

The "Journal of Creative Music Systems" is the leading international forum for research in music and Artificial Intelligence. - Launched the journal - Developed the journal platform- Contributed to create the network of academics and industry experts that seat on the editorial boardMain duties are:- Helping the Editor to manage the publishing workflow - Contributing to decide the editorial direction of the journal- Managing/curating the website of the journal - Promoting the journal on mailing lists and social media - Reviewing articles and liaising with authors

Composing music in different genres and for different media:- 'Art' music: focus on creating music for piano solo and orchestra. Now delving into a new style that is a mash up of classical and electronic music.- Video game music: composed both linear and dynamic soundtracks for indie games.- Film music: collaborated on the soundtrack for a short film.

Given lessons at all levels and prepared pupils for exams in:- Composition- Music theory- Piano performance

Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, Gb

Taught "Theory and Analysis of Popular Music" to undergratuate students in music and music technology.- Planned classes- Prepared course material- Designed learning activities- Provided extra-class support to pupils- Marked exams

Kibink was a web-based editor that allowed user to create multimedia and interactive stories quickly.- Designed the application using UML- Developed back end of the application (PHP)- Designed and implemented the database solution in MongoDb- Developed front end (HTML5, JavaScript, CSS)- Contributed to the UX of the web app, working with designers- Analysed feedback from customers to improve product- Contributed to the definition of the initial business idea

Taught physics and astronomy basics to upper secondary school students. - Planned classes - Designed learning activities - Provided feedback to students- Prepared course materials such as syllabus, homework assignments, and handouts

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Ai Music

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Education record

Master'S Degree, Music Conducting

Master'S Degree, Music Composition

Master'S Degree, Piano Performance

Bachelor'S Degree, Music

Upper Secondary School Diploma, Classical Studies