Dec 2021 – Jul 2022 · 7 mos

• Lead the development and maintenance of internal systems for forex risk management, safeguarding customer funds, and providing reliable exchange rates. Key achievements:
• Designed and implemented a flexible, layered exposure management system with a modern UI, enabling ad hoc trades to reduce VaR and offset weekend exposure.
• Expanded currency coverage by integrating new currency pairs and adding a new rate provider.
• Developed safeguarding systems for new regions, and enhanced scalability, monitoring, and reliability for existing ones.
• Optimized reconciliation processes using Airflow and Snowflake, increasing operational efficiency.
• Developed and maintained append-only ledger tables aggregating data from multiple sources for accurate financial tracking.
• Tech Stack: Java, Groovy, SQL (MariaDB & PostgreSQL with TimescaleDB), Airflow, Snowflake

Feb 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Developer for fx (forex) risk and safeguarding in treasury team. Working on the automated system allowing forex risk managment, customer funds safeguarding and liquidity management.

Feb 2019 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr · Londra, Regno Unito

• Senior Software engineer in Core Entities & Mendeley Search teams.
• Developed and maintained Elsevier's data platform for providing canonical representation of entities clustered between different systems
• Designed and implemented data ingestion for the new Mendeley search.
• Implemented Credential provider to allow EMR clusters to securely read data cross account using EMRFS.
• Refactored existing application to improve maintainability improving 4x performance tuning query indexes, db connections and thread pooling, saving costs on the AWS infrastructure.
• Improved logging, monitoring and metrics for existing systems.
• Maintained and implemented components in AWS infrastructure (viaTerraform) composed of an EMR clusters, mysql databases (RDS), applications (ECS-EC2) and a Kafka cluster.
• Tech used: Scala, Java, Akka (stream and http), Kafka, Spark, Mysql, Terraform, AWS, EMR, Docker, ecs-ec2, elasticsearch/kibana, Graphite, Grafana and jenkins.

Nov 2017 – Feb 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Java / Scala Developer – B2C, eBay European Product Development
• Worked on the design, maintenance, and delivery of new features for eBay’s public Account API, serving external developers and partners. Contributed to internal services used for VAT number management and compliance.
• Built and maintained high-traffic, business-critical services operating at massive scale (up to ~800 million requests per day), with a codebase spanning pure Java, pure Scala, and mixed Java/Scala applications.
• Contributed to the open-source Scala contract testing ecosystem via pact-jvm (DiUS).

Jun 2016 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Java Developer – Edge Services for Apps & Chatbot
• Developed and maintained RESTful edge services serving iOS, Android, Apple TV apps, and a chatbot, acting as gateways to internal systems. Worked in Java with Spring, Jersey, JUnit, Mockito, Docker, and Bamboo, using Git/Stash for version control. Gained end-to-end experience from task implementation to production monitoring (Grafana, Splunk). Contributed to the open-source testing framework Heat: https://github.com/ExpediaGroup/heat

Dec 2014 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos · Roma

• Java developer for the Business Support System, working on the backend eCommerce functionalities for the new Telecom Italia and Tim online portal. Trough this experience I've improved my Java knowledge and learned many new technologies, such as Web Logic server, Oracle ATG, Endeca Search, Oracle Coherence and Spring.

Jun 2014 – Nov 2014 · 5 mos · Roma, Italia

• Software Engineering in J2EE environment. Through this job I have gained a good experience using Java language and on many of the technologies related to web programming: TomCat web server, Oracle DB, CSS, html and javascript.