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 work down below
I ended up loving everything around/about music: listening, thrifting, playing and producing
I 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, I love to this day to escape there whenever possible
This was my first real job after graduating in Computer Science and Engineering from PoliMi
I worked across the all software stack, being at a consulting firm meant juggling between multiple projects and customers all the time
Like working on monolithic C# systems with millions of lines of code but also "modern" - at the time - Web Applications built with Angular JS and something called ASP.NET Core
I got to spend a lot of time in the AWS Console back when it had only 15 services or so and AWS Lambda was the new shiny thing everybody wanted to use. Since I wanted to be cool too, I recall building a SAML flow in it
I had so much fun there that it's not easy to compress in a few paragraphs
We worked in a fairly autonomous environment where our team owned systems end-to-end, from infrastructure to production operations
This allowed me to satisfy my curiosity for various facets of professional software engineering:
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A small - and a bit outdated - artifact of my time there can still be found here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 later published in the Nature Scientific Reports journal
I had the chance to lead critical infrastructure initiatives in the data and analytics work streams, including many cross-team projects impacting an engineering org. of ~600 people:
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