Giovanni Claudio

Giovanni Claudio

Sr. Principal Software Engineer @ Medtronic

Giovanni Claudio

Senior Principal Software Engineer at Medtronic, where I'm the AI/Video technical lead and a software architect for Touch Surgery™ Aide, a high-performance video and AI platform that brings real-time guidance into the operating room.

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, Software Architect & AI-Video Tech Lead

Medtronic, Digital Surgery

Jan 2025 - Present London, UK

Leading the AI-video software behind Touch Surgery™ Aide, Medtronic's real-time AI compute platform for the operating room, where several AI applications run side by side during surgery.

Impact

  • Led the AI-video software behind Touch Surgery™ Aide, Medtronic's real-time AI compute platform for the operating room.
  • Achieved FDA 510(k) clearance for Instrument Exit Point, Aide's first AI app, marking where Hugo™ instruments exit the view.
  • Architected GPU sharing for multiple AI apps with strict medical/non-medical isolation and sub-frame overlay latency.
  • Shaped project-wide practices in architecture, versioning, doc generation, integration testing, observability, C++ and CI.
  • Acted as the AI-video point of contact between the ML, Systems, DevOps, Cloud, Quality, Regulatory and UI teams.
  • Built the C++ runtime (AI manager, scheduler, TensorRT inference, recording) plus IPC, visualization and telemetry libraries.
  • Introduced an agentic-AI workspace used daily for development, documentation, compliance audits and FMEA review.
  • Mentored 5+ engineers through pairing and design reviews, raising delivery pace and design quality.