About the author
Valerio is a technology enthusiast focused on Cloud, Software Engineering, AI, and Analytics. Before joining Elastic he spent most of his career innovating enterprise processes with the latest technologies and leading R&D teams. Valerio has also extensive expertise in the SAP world. He's now strongly involved in developing ecosystem alliances and in the enterprise adoption of GenerativeAI together with ML-powered search.
Author’s articles

April 9, 2025
Elasticsearch vector database for native grounding in Google Cloud’s Vertex AI Platform
Elasticsearch will be available as the first third-party native grounding engine for Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform and Google’s Gemini models. It enables joint users to build fully customizable GenAI experiences grounded in enterprise data, powered by the best-of-breed Search AI capabilities from Elasticsearch.

November 6, 2023
A conversational search experience for retail: Elasticsearch Relevance Engine with Google Cloud’s generative AI
This blog presents a new search experience for retailers using generative AI with Vertex AI and Elasticsearch.