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Work Experience

• Senior Software Engineer, Akamas

  Feb, 2019 - Present

  Senior Software Engineer at Akamas, an AI-powered full-stack optimization platform (application runtimes, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure). Led development of product features, integrations, and platform migrations.

  • Led feature development across the core product: Java (Spring Boot) and Python microservices spanning business logic, platform APIs, and customer-facing capabilities

  • Built native integrations with Dynatrace, Prometheus, NeoLoad, Apache Spark, and Oracle Database, extending the platform's reach across diverse tech stacks

  • Transitioned the product to a Kubernetes-native architecture (Helm), enabling flexible customer deployments

  • Managed CI pipelines (GitLab, AWS, Ansible)

  • L3 technical support for enterprise customers

  • Authored customer success stories and technical documentation for marketing

  • Championing agentic AI adoption across diverse aspects of the engineering lifecycle. Building Claude Code skills that embed specialized frameworks and methodologies, unlocking expert-level results in domains outside the user's expertise

• Technical Solutions Engineer, ContentWise

  May, 2016 - Feb, 20192 years 9 months

  Maintained ContentWise's video recommendation API integrations for AT&T DirecTV (~20M subscribers), Bell Canada, TIMvision, and Mediaset Infinity.

  • Engineered real-time data pipelines reconciling catalog and metadata across heterogeneous datasources (Python, MySQL, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ)

  • Advised customers on API design, mapping UX requirements to REST integration flows

  • Built performance fallback systems (Varnish Cache, Redis), monitoring, disaster recovery, and automated provisioning (AWS, Ansible)

  • On-call L3 support for mission-critical outage response

• Junior Professional Services Consultant, ContentWise

  May, 2014 - May, 20162 years

  Delivered ContentWise recommendation engine integrations for OTT providers across Europe, Americas, and Asia.

  • Led end-to-end delivery of Sky Brasil on-premise deployment, requirements through production

  • Supported integrations for Maxdome (Germany), Mediaset Infinity (Italy), and TrueVisions (Thailand)

  • Built video catalog ingestion pipelines (Groovy, MySQL)

  • Automated AWS provisioning (Vagrant, Puppet)

• Natural Language Understanding Engineer, Maluuba

  Sep, 2013 - May, 20148 months

  Extended the NLP engine at Maluuba (acquired by Microsoft Research) with Italian-language support, powering voice assistants for BlackBerry Personal Assistant and Samsung Smart TVs.

  • Reached 95% accuracy in intent classification (SVM) and entity extraction (CRF) for Italian-language voice commands

  • Built Python-based synthetic sentence generator using a custom templating language to augment low-resource training data

  • Automated model training and deployment pipelines (Bash, Python)

• Jr. Software Engineer, STMicroelectronics

  Jun, 2012 - Jul, 20131 year 1 month

  • Developed sensor fusion algorithms (GPS + visual odometry) for Artemis Astute, an EU autonomous navigation research project (C++, Matlab)

  • Rewrote from scratch an internal tool for thermal analysis of IC packages, cutting analysis time from hours to seconds (Matlab, Genetic Algorithms)

  • Managed RHEL cluster infrastructure running thermal simulation workloads

Projects Experience

• ContentWise integration with DirecTV, ContentWise

  Feb, 2016 - Aug, 20182 years 6 months

  DIRECTV STREAM - Live Stream TV on Mobile & Streaming Devices

• ContentWise integration with TIMvision, ContentWise

  Dec, 2015 - Nov, 201611 months

  Integration of the ContentWise recommendation engine within TIMvision's OTT platform. Service integration design, data-ingestion pipeline, and Azure deployment.

• ContentWise integration with Multimedia Polska, ContentWise

  Apr, 2016 - Oct, 20166 months

  Integration of the ContentWise recommendation service within Multimedia Polska's OTT platform. Service integration design, data-ingestion pipeline, and on-premise deployment.

• ContentWise integration with Maxdome, ContentWise

  Apr, 2014 - Feb, 201510 months

  Recommendation engine integration for Maxdome (Germany). Java, MySQL, AWS.

• RC Fitter, STMicroelectronics

  Mar, 2013 - Jul, 20134 months

  Modeling tool for integrated circuit packages, automates the analysis of thermal profiles synthesizing the equivalent Foster network. The extracted RC parameters approximate component behavior in large-scale thermal simulations.

• Polimi EMG Analysis, Politecnico di Milano

  Oct, 2011 - Apr, 20126 months

  Human-computer interface for reliable hand movement recognition from forearm electromyographic signals, with timings suitable for interactive applications. Designed as a natural controller for a rehabilitation exoskeleton.

• IAAS Fog, Politecnico di Milano

  Nov, 2010 - Feb, 20113 months

  Computer vision system analyzing video from a car-mounted camera to assess visibility conditions by tracking contrast evolution of features across frames.

• GAFIS - Genetic Algorithms for Image Stitching, Politecnico di Milano

  Nov, 2008 - Feb, 20093 months

  Automatic panoramic image stitching tool based on genetic algorithms.

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