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• Senior Software Engineer, Akamas

  Feb, 2019 - Present

  Joined in the early days of a startup, now a scaleup, building an AI-powered optimization platform for application runtimes, containers, and cloud infrastructure. Full-stack ownership across Java (Spring Boot) and Python microservices, AWS, Kubernetes, platform integrations, CI/CD, and enterprise customer support.

  • Bootstrapped the infrastructure of a new SaaS product line: Kubernetes, CI/CD (GitLab, ArgoCD), and monitoring. Now owning the business logic that integrates customer observability stacks

  • Drove the core product's migration from VM-only to Kubernetes-native (Helm), opening the platform to Kubernetes-first enterprise customers

  • Optimized a customer's Spark infrastructure, halving cost with 11% faster execution; presented at the Performance Advisory Council (PAC)

  • Extended the platform with new integrations (Oracle Database, Kubernetes, Apache Spark, OpenJ9, NeoLoad Web) in partnership with product and customer success teams; maintained the existing connector portfolio

  • Delivered OAuth/SSO authentication across the stack, enabling adoption by customers with enterprise SSO requirements

  • Mentored engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and onboarding

  • Driving agentic AI adoption to streamline engineering workflows; building Claude Code skills that encode team processes and expert reasoning

• Technical Solutions Engineer, ContentWise

  May, 2016 - Feb, 20192 years 9 months

  Technical owner for production integrations of ContentWise's video recommendation engine serving 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)

  • Designed REST integration flows mapping customer UX requirements to the recommendation API

  • Built high-availability infrastructure: caching (Varnish, Redis), monitoring, disaster recovery, and automated provisioning (AWS, Ansible)

  • On-call L3 support for mission-critical production systems serving millions of users

• Junior Professional Services Consultant, ContentWise

  May, 2014 - May, 20162 years

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

  • Managed Sky Brasil's on-premise deployment as project lead, from requirements through production

  • Delivered 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 (later 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)

  • Re-engineered an internal tool for thermal analysis of IC packages, cutting analysis time from hours to minutes (Matlab, Genetic Algorithms)

  • Maintained a RHEL cluster running thermal simulation workloads

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