Giovanni Claudio

Giovanni Claudio

Sr. Principal Software Engineer @ Medtronic

Giovanni Claudio

Senior Principal Software Engineer at Medtronic, working on a high-performance video and AI pipeline that provides real-time guidance during surgical procedures, for both robotic-assisted and conventional laparoscopic surgery.

Humanoid robots at INRIA, autonomous cars at Italdesign, delivery bots at Arrival, and now the operating room at Medtronic. 12+ years of teaching machines to see, one embedded GPU at a time. Different domains, same hard problem: making perception reliable where it actually has to work.

Born in Genoa, the land of pesto, focaccia, and Genoa CFC, a football club I keep supporting against better judgement. My surname is Claudio (yes, also a first name, no, I can't explain it). When AI finally replaces us software engineers, I've got two backup plans ready: gelato sommelier or cat photographer.

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Sr. Principal Software Engineer, AI-Video Technical Lead

Medtronic, Digital Surgery

Jan 2025 - Present London, UK

Owned the AI-video platform for medical surgical-guidance device, from GPU scheduling to release strategy.

Impact

  • Architected a regulated AI-video platform with three core goals: isolate multiple AI apps sharing one GPU, enforce clear medical/non-medical boundaries, and low overlay latency for real-time surgical guidance.
  • Designed core runtime capabilities including AI scheduling, inference hardening, video and AI data recording, overlay generation, time synchronisation, and benchmarking.
  • Act as the technical bridge across ML, Systems, Quality, Regulatory, and UI, turning requirements into a delivery roadmap.
  • Built the platform to scale future AI features through shared x86/ARM dev containers, a modular build system, common libraries, and automated end-to-end model verification before deployment.
  • Designed hardware-in-the-loop testing, CI-published documentation, and variant-aware build/versioning practices to make releases, regression testing, and submission artifacts repeatable under change control.
  • Technical lead for a team of 5 engineers, combining hands-on architecture work with mentoring, reviews, and pairing.
Role notes ▸

Promoted to Sr. Principal Software Engineer and AI-Video Technical Lead to own the architecture and roadmap for Medtronic's surgical AI-video platform.

Led the move from prototype to release-ready system by designing the GPU scheduler, inference runtime, safety-overlay path, and recording/logging pipeline; driving FDA-submission work for AI-video features; and leading a team of 5 across ML, systems, quality, regulatory, and UI.

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