Marco Sabatini

📍 Italy / Switzerland
📞 +39 342 35 61 216
✉ sabatini.m@gmail.com

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Head of Data Platform Engineering | Data Platform Architect

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
  • Google Cloud (BigQuery, Dataproc)
  • 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

Programming

Python • Scala • Kotlin • Java • Bash

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, Kubernetes, Databricks, Python, Terraform, Docker, Oracle

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