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 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
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 hands-on experience with key services like Route53, CloudWatch, S3, ECS, Lambda, RDS, Code Pipeline
takeaways: though I recall being often stressed and tired, it felt like I squeezed 5y of experience into 1y6m. overall the heavy customer interaction proved invaluable later in my career
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:
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a small - and a bit outdated - artifact of my time there can be found here
takeaways: I practiced how to be effective in bigger teams, learning plenty about myself along the way
AWS solutions architects do many many many things but to sum it up for myself:
an 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
takeaways: time at Amazon was intense, but I got to work with some cool customers
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:
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
some writing from my awesome team mates on our achievements together:
so far Miro has been an adventure full of great people to work with and interesting challenges
if you wanna chat you can slide into my inbox