hi there!

what do I do most of the time?

the sum of my biological and environmental luck made me someone ~good with software engineering. more on my work here

also ended up loving listening to music and playing / producing some on my own

can't think of a time in my life when I wasn't practicing some kind of sport. for the past several years, climbing has been the most fun and engaging for me

really like buying books but I'm struggling to keep up with the reading. basically building my own antilibrary of sorts

work

deloitte [1y6m] | milan

software engineer

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:

• italian hearing aids leader: worked on a monolithic C# system (1M+ LOC) spanning from UI in WPF to ORM
• french group leader in contract catering: fun project where we built a greenfield web app with an AngularJS frontend and C# ASP.NET Core µ-services running on Amazon ECS

on this last project I got my first exposure to cloud computing and AWS, leading me to get certified and gain hands-on experience with key services like Route53, CloudWatch, S3, ECS, Lambda, RDS, Code Pipeline

babbel [2y] | berlin

data engineer

focused on 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:

• performed SRE work on cloud networking and data warehousing, specializing in Terraform
• expanded my AWS expertise with data analytics services like Kinesis, Glue and Athena
• wrote a lot of Python and SQL, collaborating closely with data scientists to deliver business insights

working in a very diverse team, I grew both as a mentor to interns / juniors and as a mentee to experienced colleagues

a small - and a bit outdated - artifact of my time there can be found here

amazon web services [1y4m] | berlin

solutions architect

AWS solutions architects do many many many things but to sum it up for myself:

• worked with early stage startups in Healthcare & Life Sciences verticals to support them in architecting solutions on the cloud of AWS
• created educational content and scaling activities for customers, mostly focusing on data engineering and analytics
• built demo architectures with fellow SAs to inspire customer adoption: this is one I contributed to

a highlight for me was helping a customer demonstrate through computational analysis that the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant had higher binding affinity to the hACE2 receptor. this work was published in the Nature Scientific Reports journal

miro [3y+] | berlin

senior data engineer

had the chance to lead critical data infrastructure initiatives in the analytics events space, including many cross-team projects impacting an engineering org. of ~1000 people:

• designed and built Miro's analytics event tracking system and event catalog: drove the adoption up to serving ~2900 event schemas and metadata with 350+ individual internal contributions
• designed and delivered internal processes around analytics events: automations to generate TypeScript and POJO interfaces for better devx, creation / deprecation guidelines, internal conventions on naming / versioning / compatibility, etc.
• built the internal setup to run Apache Flink on Kubernetes and delivered the migration from Amazon EMR
• collaborated in the design and deployment of several Apache Flink jobs for near real-time analytics processing, event schema validation and event routing: these jobs process up to ~150k events per second at pick and ingest a volume of ~5 billion events per day

somewhere in 2024 my team's scope expanded to managing all Miro's event-based systems, from the internal Miro's PubSub built on Apache Kafka to a few other legacy components employing queues and maps to enable distributed locking use cases

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