Mario Dagrada

Bringing scientific SW products from 0 to 1

I am Mario Dagrada, an engineering leader with 10+ years of experience in scientific and AI-powered software products. I speak both the engineering and science languages and love building, especially if it involves translating difficult scientific workflows into revenue-generating applications.

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Focus areas

Engineering Leadership

Grow engineering and research teams with a building-oriented culture and strong alignment with business goals.

Product Engineering

Translate complex scientific workflows (mostly ML-based) into delightful and usable software products.

AI infrastructure

Focus on HPC, distributed training systems, and LLM agentic pipelines.

Career at a glance

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Mar 2026 — now
GroundIQ (part of Fugro)
Scientific Product Lead
Turn scientific expertise into modern AI-driven products in the geotech engineering domain. Tech leadership for 2 teams (15 engineers).
Nov 2024 — now
Dagrada Consulting Services
Fractional AI Engineer
Design LLM infrastructure, agent pipelines, and evaluation systems for SaaS, R&D, and insurance clients. More details available upon request.
Feb 2024 — Sep 2025
Friday Energy
Chief Technology Officer
Led the engineering team in a period of high grow (2 to 10 people, 5 to 80 clients), developing algorithms to control renewable energy assets (batteries, solar panels).
Sep 2020 — Feb 2024
PASQAL
Head of Scientific Software
Started and grew a 15-person engineering organisation building tools for 40+ scientists across multiple departments.
Apr 2018 — Sep 2020
Forescout Technologies
Senior R&D Software Engineer
Led the product innovation roadmap for eyeInspect, an application to protect critical infrastructures from cyberthreats.
Aug 2016 — Apr 2018
Atos Bull
R&D Software Engineer
Straight after PhD, worked on HPC interconnect network protocols and performance optimization of scientific applications.