About

The short version, in order.

Andy Spezzatti in Oxnard, 2024
Oxnard, California · 2024.
01Chronology
Roles, institutions & research groups.
  1. 2025 –
    Zapier — Research engineer on agent evaluation: simulated worlds, eval-driven development, release gates for an agent platform used by 1.5M+ people.
  2. 2022 – 25
    Taltrics — Co-founder and CTO. Resource forecasting for enterprise operations, then a multi-agent platform that scopes and prices professional-services deals on the call; Berkeley SkyDeck; FABA top-3 French entrepreneur in the US, 2024.
  3. 2020 – 23
    Z-Inspection — Researcher in an international group assessing trustworthy AI in healthcare; four peer-reviewed papers.
  4. 2019 – 22
    Genentech / Roche — Senior data scientist. Discrete-event simulation of a 300-trial portfolio; planning and crisis-response models used across therapeutic areas.
  5. 2018 – 21
    AI for Good Foundation — Led the UN SDG Data Catalog; Microsoft funding; SIGKDD 2019.
  6. 2018 – 19
    UC Berkeley — MEng, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research. Played soccer for Cal.
  7. – 2018
    École Centrale Paris — Applied mathematics and computer science.
02Talks & media
Workshops, conference talks & podcasts.
  1. Build-Along Workshop on Agentic AI
    Zapier × Gamma
    Feb 2026
  2. AI and the Future of Global Sustainability
    Socially Conscious AI Podcast
    Sep 2024
  3. Leveraging AI to build a Data Catalog and support research on the SDGs
    ACM COMPASS
    Jun 2022
  4. Hidden in Plain Sight: Building a Global Sustainable Development Data Catalogue
    ICT4SD
    Jul 2020
  5. SDG Data Catalog — Social Impact Showcase
    SIGKDD 2019
    Aug 2019
03Off screen
Running, outdoors & bookshelf.

Running has always been my reset — middle distance, 800 m and 1500 m, and I still chase small gains that only show up on race day. I played soccer for years, including at Berkeley. These days I'm outside when I can: hiking, skiing in the Alps when I visit family, biking around Marin, learning to surf.

Books I keep returning to: Taleb'sIncerto, Pearl'sThe Book of Why, Kahneman'sThinking, Fast and Slow, O'Neil'sWeapons of Math Destruction. Podcasts:Dwarkesh,Lex Fridman,Generation Do It Yourself.

04Colophon
Typography & construction.

Set in Newsreader, with Inter and JetBrains Mono for structural indices and diagrams. Built with Astro to static HTML with inline SVG simulations and zero external runtime dependencies. No tracking. Source onGitHub.

05Contact
Direct correspondence.

andyspezzatti@gmail.com — I read everything, and reply to most of it. I occasionally advise teams on agent evaluation; email is the way.