I am Riccardo
don't know how you arrived, but nice to have you here hopefully I can feed your curiosity on this page
the sum of my biological and environmental luck made me someone ~good with software engineering. more on my work down below
ended up loving everything around/about music: listening, thrifting, playing and producing
grown up having fun doing all kinds of sports, climbing has been the most engaging for me
really like buying books but I'm struggling to keep up with the reading, basically building my own tsundoku of sorts
being raised in an area close to mountains made me appreciate the silence and peace one can find with altitude, love to this day to escape there whenever possible
flow is my key to great work, long chunks of uninterrupted time enable flow
if your way of working encourages async and remote collaboration, empty calendars, flat hierarchy, and self-management, then we may be a fit
this was my first real job after graduating in computer science and engineering from polimi
as a full stack engineer at a consulting firm I juggled multiple projects for mid cap italian and french companies, notably:
on this last project I got my first exposure to cloud computing and AWS, leading me to get certified and gain experience with services like Route53, CloudWatch, S3, ECS, Lambda, RDS
good fun building and managing "serverless" pipelines that processed ~100M analytics events daily
we worked in a fairly autonomous environment where our team owned systems end-to-end, from infrastructure to production operations:
working in a diverse team helped me grow both as a mentor to juniors and a mentee to senior colleagues
a small - and a bit outdated - artifact of my time there can be found here
AWS solutions architects do many many many things but to sum it up for myself:
a highlight for me was helping a customer demonstrate through computational analysis that the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant had high binding affinity to the hACE2 receptor. this work was published in the Nature Scientific Reports journal
had the chance to lead critical infrastructure initiatives in the data and analytics work stream, including many cross-team projects impacting an engineering org. of ~1000 people:
if you wanna chat, you can slide into my inbox