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Engineering leader with 15+ years of experience building scalable data platforms, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure across fintech, cybersecurity, and travel-tech environments.
Proven track record of leading engineering teams, designing modern data architectures, and delivering production-grade data platforms that support analytics, risk modelling, and data-driven decision making.
Strong background in data pipelines, big data ecosystems, cloud-native infrastructure, and platform engineering. Passionate about mentoring engineers, building high-performing teams, and aligning technical platforms with business strategy.
Previously part of lastminute.com’s data platform initiatives, contributing to the Big Data pricing analytics platform used to support travel product optimization.
Core Competencies
Data Platform Architecture
- Data Lakehouse architectures
- Data ingestion and processing pipelines
- Streaming and event-driven systems
- Data lifecycle management
- Data quality and reliability
Cloud Data Platforms
- AWS & Azure storage
- AWS & Azure RDS
- Kubernetes
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
Data Engineering & Technologies
- Spark
- Databricks
- SQL / NoSQL databases
- Elasticsearch / SOLR
- Data orchestration and microservices
Leadership & Strategy
- Engineering team leadership
- Platform strategy and architecture
- Cross-team technical coordination
- Stakeholder alignment with product and business teams
- Mentoring and developing engineers
Professional Experience
Associate Director – Software Engineering
UBS – Lugano, Switzerland
Nov 2024 – Present
Lead a 15-engineer team responsible for migrating financial risk models to a cloud-native data platform supporting enterprise analytics and risk management.
Key contributions
- Leading the migration of risk modelling workloads from on-prem infrastructure to Azure-based cloud data platforms
- Designing scalable platform architecture using Azure Kubernetes, Databricks, and cloud storage
- Implementing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform to standardize environments and deployments
- Improving scalability and reliability of data processing pipelines used by quantitative and risk teams
- Coaching engineers and driving engineering best practices across the team
Tech: Azure storage, Kubernetes, Databricks, Python, Terraform, Docker, Oracle DB, Gitlab
Senior Software Architect
Denexus – Lugano, Switzerland
May 2022 – Nov 2024
Architected and developed a cyber risk intelligence platform used to aggregate and enrich large-scale network asset and vulnerability data.
Key contributions
- Designed a cloud-native platform for ingesting, enriching, and indexing cybersecurity intelligence data
- Built scalable data ingestion and enrichment pipelines
- Implemented microservices enabling data discovery and search across industrial network assets
- Collaborated with product leadership to define platform architecture and roadmap
Tech: AWS (ECS, EC2, S3), Databricks, Python, Terraform, Docker, Postgres, Splunk
Senior Software Engineer
Nozomi Networks – Mendrisio, Switzerland
Nov 2020 – May 2022
Developed data services supporting industrial cybersecurity analytics platforms.
Key contributions
- Built systems for collecting, processing, and enriching vulnerability intelligence and industrial protocol data
- Led a security research engineering team responsible for vulnerability intelligence workflows
- Collaborated with SRE teams to implement AWS infrastructure using Terraform
- Contributed to improving data reliability and operational monitoring
Tech: AWS, Terraform, Elasticsearch, SOLR, Docker, Ruby, Javascript, MySQL
Tech Lead
lastminute.com – Chiasso, Switzerland
Nov 2018 – Nov 2020
Technical leader within the travel platform engineering organization.
Key contributions
- Led backend teams working on high-scale travel microservices
- Coordinated cross-team work to optimize platform performance using production KPIs
- Supported the migration of legacy services to cloud-based infrastructure
- Mentored engineers and promoted engineering best practices
Tech: Kotlin, Java, MySQL
Senior Agile Software Engineer
lastminute.com – Chiasso, Switzerland
Nov 2015 – Nov 2018
Engineer in the team responsible for building the Big Data pricing analytics platform.
Key contributions
- Designed and developed data pipelines for flight pricing analytics
- Built distributed processing workflows using Spark on Google Cloud
- Contributed to the migration from monolithic systems to microservices architecture
- Collaborated with product teams to support data-driven pricing optimization
Tech: Scala, Spark, BigQuery, Dataproc, Kotlin, Java
Earlier Experience
Solution Architect Consultant
Wedjaa – Rome, Italy
2011 – 2015
Technology consulting and custom software development across multiple enterprise customers.
Activities included:
- Architecture and technology assessments
- Enterprise integrations
- Technical training on Java performance and Golang
System Analyst
IDS – Rome, Italy
2009 – 2011
Developed software systems for the aerospace aeronautical navigation domain, supporting flight procedures and obstacle management.
Software Developer
IBM – Rome, Italy
2008 – 2009
Developed search technology for the publishing market using Apache Lucene.
Education
Master Degree in Computer Science
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Thesis: Integration of Legacy Systems Using SOA Principles
Final Grade: 107/110
Professional Training
- Advanced Test Driven Development — J.B. Rainsberger
- Surviving Legacy Code — J.B. Rainsberger
- Applied Functional Programming — Avanscoperta
- Machine Learning & Predictive Analytics — Simone Scardapane
- Secure Coding — Nozomi Networks