Software Architect / Technical Leader
I design high-performance enterprise systems by day and live at the edge of gaming, modern tech and content creation the rest of the time.
01About & Philosophy
Software Architect with 10+ years of experience designing enterprise microservices platforms on .NET and Azure. Bridging enterprise system design with a strong passion for gaming, modern tech, and digital content creation.
Cosenza
Where I was born
San Pietro in Guarano
Where I grew up, in the province of Cosenza
University of Calabria
Degree in Computer Engineering
Bologna
Where I live and work today
Born between the Sila mountains and the sea, Calabrian through and through, Bolognese by adoption: always smiling, sarcasm included at no extra charge.
I start from the domain, not the diagram. Clear bounded contexts and explicit contracts make every later decision cheaper.
Architecture is a set of reversible bets. I favour loosely coupled, observable systems that can change without heroics.
Gaming, sport and content creation keep me close to real-time systems, teamwork and performance under pressure — lessons that flow straight back into enterprise design.
A lifelong sports lover: watching elite teams perform under pressure is the best lesson in preparation, strategy and split-second decisions. And when the race is over, a good beer or a proper gin & tonic.
Tactics, roles and timing.
Engineering at the limit.
Balance, risk, precision.
Strategy, point after point.
Hops, malt and good company.
The right gin, the right garnish.
02Architectural Expertise
From the message bus to the payment ledger to the AI agent — the same principles of resilience, observability and clear ownership apply.
Services with clear domain boundaries and well-designed REST APIs, asynchronous messaging where decoupling matters, and real-time updates pushed to clients — from web apps to PWAs and hybrid mobile apps.
Cloud-native platforms that scale predictably, ship continuously and stay observable in production.
Multi-gateway payment engines where every transaction is idempotent, traceable and reconciled.
Production-grade AI agents with clear tool contracts, guardrails and humans kept in the loop.
Core Stack
03Experience
From web apps on Google Cloud to microservices platforms on Azure: a path built project after project.
2022 — Present
Architecture and development of C# microservices platforms on Azure: feasibility studies, code reviews, implementation and CI/CD. Projects include a microservices platform for ESG certifications.
2020 — 2022
Technical lead and mentor for junior developers on ASP.NET Core applications, including a web platform for on-board train video surveillance.
2019 — 2020
Web APIs for bank transaction categorization and user matching, the company developer portal, Docker-based releases and authentication with WSO2.
2014 — 2019
Web applications on Google Cloud Platform for large companies in the food, pharma and fashion industries, plus G Suite integrations.
UniCal
University of Calabria
Thesis on the analysis and experimentation of standards for digital payment systems.
04Posts
Thoughts on AI, software architecture and the craft of building software, first shared on LinkedIn.
1 min readIT
Imparare due SDK e interrogare un database vettoriale non rende nessuno un ingegnere: gli strumenti cambiano, la visione d'insieme e la comprensione dei trade-off restano.
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Il reverse engineering del firmware delle TV Samsung Tizen, fatto con l'aiuto dell'IA, mostra come la telemetria pubblicitaria consumi le risorse dell'hardware che paghiamo.
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L'ennesima vulnerabilità in PHP ricorda che le fondamenta tecnologiche ogni tanto vanno svecchiate, anziché affidarsi agli scongiuri.
05Connect & Digital Footprint
Professional conversations on LinkedIn, my writing on dev.to and Medium, a direct line via Telegram or email, and gaming & tech content across my creator channels.
Creator
Gaming · Tech · Live coding
Catch the panda live.