Director · AI Strategy & Platform Governance
Carlo
De Rossi
Helping organizations transform AI experimentation
into governed, scalable business value.
25+ years across global financial services — platform engineering, enterprise architecture, AI governance, and product management at UBS and Credit Suisse.
What I bring
Areas of Expertise
Spanning AI strategy, engineering, and enterprise governance.
AI Strategy & Governance
Designing AI governance architectures for regulated environments. From policy to implementation under FINMA, GDPR, and the EU AI Act.
Agentic AI
Building production-grade agentic systems — multi-agent orchestration, tool protocols, and self-healing ML pipelines.
AI Product Management
Translating AI capability into business outcomes. Discovery, prioritization, and delivery across 700+ enterprise stakeholders.
Enterprise Architecture
End-to-end platform design at scale. CHF multi-million budget governance, 35K+ deployments, vendor-neutral principles.
Azure AI
Hands-on Azure AI engineering: MLOps pipelines, Azure ML Champion-Challenger, AI Foundry multi-agent deployments.
Program Leadership
Leading enterprise-scale programmes. SOX Key Process Control owner with zero audit findings across PwC and EY.
Career
Experience
25+ years building platforms and leading AI transformation in global financial services.
2023 – Present
UBS
·Director, AI Strategy & Platform Governance
Zürich, Switzerland
Global Wealth Management Platforms- ›Leading AI Interdependency Stream — mapping ~22K application dependencies using graph clustering (Louvain, SCC, HDBSCAN)
- ›Designing CIAA v2.0: FINMA/GDPR/EU AI Act compliant agentic framework with context-isolation and local-first inference
- ›AI adoption analytics across ~7,500 employees; graphRAG benchmarking (Neo4j vs ChromaDB) over EU regulatory corpus
- ›hf-market-impact causal inference pipeline (DoubleML/CausalForest) on monetary policy and HF markets via Azure ML
2001 – 2023
Credit Suisse
·Product Manager, Senior Architect, Risk & Service Manager
Zürich, Switzerland
Enterprise Platforms · AI/ML · FinOps- ›Product Owner & Senior Architect of the Java Application Platform — 750+ global clients, 35K+ deployments
- ›Deputy Owner, Container Platform — Avoid Vendor Lock-In principle, 350-app migration from commercial to open-source
- ›SOX Key Process Control Owner — zero findings across PwC and EY audits across 22 years
- ›FinOps: CHF multi-million budget with $5M annual cost avoidance; vulnerability framework reduced exposure from 80% to <10%
- ›AI/ML applied to time-series forecasting, stakeholder clustering, and neural forecast models; 700+ stakeholders managed
1998 – 2001
GFT Consulting
·Consultant
Zürich / Berlin
Forward-deployed to Swiss Post, Deutsche Post, ESTV- ›Systems integration and platform delivery for Swiss Post, Deutsche Post, and Swiss Federal Tax Administration (ESTV)
- ›Early experience bridging technical delivery with institutional client stakeholders in regulated public-sector environments
GitHub
Projects
Production implementations across agentic AI, MLOps, RAG, and financial ML.
graphRAG
Graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation system.
GenAI / RAG / Graph MLmlflow-pipeline
End‑to‑end production MLOps pipeline using MLflow.
MLOps / Infrastructureself-healing-ml-agentic-demo
Agentic MLOps system with autonomous drift detection and retraining.
Agentic AI / MLOpsadaptive-rebalancing-agent
Adaptive portfolio rebalancing agent.
Financial ML / Agentic AICoMMEnTo
Agentic AI pattern implementation.
Agentic AI / Architectureauction-agents
Multi-agent RL auction simulation.
Reinforcement Learning / Multi-Agent Systemsa2a
A2A multi-agent communication protocol implementation.
Agentic AI / Protocolscarlo-career-mcp
Custom MCP server for career assistance.
AI Infrastructure / MCPNeuralForecast4TimeSeries
Neural forecasting models with Optuna optimization.
Time Series / Financial MLagentic-rag
Agentic RAG system with autonomous reasoning.
GenAI / Agentic RAGAIPdMML
AI Product Management + Machine Learning notebooks.
AI Product ManagementCreditCardFraudAnomalyDetection
Financial anomaly detection model.
Financial ML / Anomaly DetectionPublications
Thought leadership on agentic AI, governance, and enterprise transformation.
When AI Agents Build Humpty Dumpty's Kingdom
Why Azure Migration Agents reveal the difference between graphs, knowledge, and dreams — insights from building a multi-agent prototype.
AI AgentsThe Uncomfortable Truth About Governing GenAI at Enterprise Scale
The hidden governance challenges that emerge only after GenAI is deployed in production.
AI GovernanceChampion–Challenger in Production ML
How to safely replace a credit risk model without breaking production; practical guidance on Champion–Challenger deployment.
MLOpsFrom 'Internet Travel Agency' to AI: Why Every Technology Revolution Needs a New Mental Map
A reflection on technological revolutions through the lens of generational experience and mental models.
AI StrategyGraphRAG: Semantic Vector Search Is Usually Enough — Until It Isn't
Where graph-based retrieval earns its keep; results from 84 LLM evaluations on EU/Swiss AI & data laws.
RAGYour Car Has More Code Than a Fighter Jet. And It's Already Obsolete.
The software crisis inside modern vehicles — and why multi-agent AI systems are the only scalable engineering response.
Automotive SoftwareCredentials
Certifications
100+ professional certifications across AI, cloud, architecture, and product management.
Artificial Intelligence
50- › AI Agents and Agentic AI
- › AI Product Management Specialization
- › AI Security LLMs Threats and OWASP 2026
- › AI Security and Governance Specialization
- › AI for Good Specialization
- +45 more
Machine Learning
21- › Applied Machine Learning in Python
- › Calculus for Machine Learning and Data Science
- › Data Science on Microsoft Azure (DP-100)
- › Deep Learning with Keras and Tensorflow
- › DeepLearning.AI TensorFlow
- +16 more
Product Management
22- › AI Product Management Specialization
- › Business Analytics — Communicating with Data
- › Client needs and Software Requirements
- › Critical Thinking & Logic
- › Deductive Reasoning and Mental Models
- +17 more
Azure
19- › Artificial Intelligence on Microsoft Azure
- › Authorization and Identity In Azure
- › Authorization and Managing Identity in Azure
- › Computer Vision in Microsoft Azure
- › Credentials AB-730 AI Business Professional
- +14 more
Data
15- › Data Analysis with Python
- › Data Ethics, AI and Responsible Innovation
- › Data Science Ethics
- › Data Visualization with Python
- › Databricks
- +10 more