Overview

I have been working as a professional software developer since 2019. I hold a Master's degree in Linguistics (exploring syntax-semantics interface theory) from Sapienza University of Rome, and started coding during a brief excursion into academia. I have since grown from junior backend development in Java to working, in Go, on a monitoring and diagnostics platform for Postgres clusters, while continuing to build up my understanding of databases and distributed-systems internals. My writing is on my blog, my code on GitHub.

Tools & Skills
Proficient	Go, bash, SQL, git, GNU/Linux, containers, Kubernetes, REST API, software design
Intermediate	observability, performance analysis, Protobuf/gRPC, PostgreSQL, CloudNativePG, OpenTelemetry
Basic	Redis, Kafka, system design, distributed systems, Prometheus/Thanos
Actively Learning	modern C, systems programming, database internals

Experience
Jan/2025 - present	Senior SDE @ EnterpriseDB (EDB)
	I have contributed to the development of a Go-based observability platform for PostgreSQL clusters across cloud and on-premises Kubernetes environments. Key capabilities include:
	* a metrics and alerting service, backed by Prometheus/Thanos, tracking query latency, QPS/TPS, wait events, replication, autovacuum performance, and more.
	* a performance diagnostics and recommendations engine, on PostgreSQL (CNPG), that surfaces index, security and configuration suggestions and generates automated cluster health reports.
	* a high-throughput telemetry ingestion pipeline, instrumented with OpenTelemetry.
	Additionally, I have authored technical RFCs to architect new features, evaluating design approaches and engineering tradeoffs prior to implementation.
	See enterprisedb.com/products/hybrid-manager.
Mar/2019 - Jan/2025	SDE @ Accenture
	* 2021 - 2025, Application Development Specialist: Developed containerized services and CLI tools in Go as reusable building blocks for a data mesh architecture on Azure.
	* 2020 - 2021, Application Development Senior Analyst: Developed backends based on Quarkus, built and deployed to the Openshift Container Platform (OCP) via Jenkins pipelines, to manage corporate accounts for a private bank operating in Western Europe. The project allowed the client to fully digitalize the onboarding process of new customers. Worked in an Agile/Scrum environment for the first time.
	* 2019 - 2020, Application Development Analyst: Worked on RESTful web services based on Java and deployed to (hence) popular cloud solutions (e.g. Cloud Foundry, Amazon EC2) which served aggregated data to a dashboard for the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) division of an automotive multinational corporation in order to improve their customer support.
	* Mar/2019 - Jul/2019, Internship Trainee: Introduced to the fundamentals of back-end development with Java and its related tech stack, especially the Spring framework. Helped build a data retention system for a telephone operator in Italy to comply with the requirements prescribed by the applicable law and regulations.
2018 - Mar/2019	Research Assistant @ Sapienza University of Rome
	Contributed to the creation of an AMR-like adjective lexicon for the MOUSSE project, an early foray into computational linguistics carried out in the Linguistic Computing Laboratory (LCL) of the CS department of Sapienza University of Rome.
Oct/2017 - Dec/2017	Linguistic Consultant @ Babelscape
	Creation and validation of natural language training corpora for machine learning, writing Python scripts to partially automate the process — a first hands-on contact with programming.

Volunteering
Sept/2017 - Oct/2017	Library Digital Curator @ Servizio Civile Nazionale
	Cataloguing and digitization of historical documents belonging to the Faculty of Arts of the Sapienza University of Rome in the project "La digital library della Sapienza. Collezione e archivi digitali".

Certifications
2021	Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS)
2022	Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

Education
2020 - 2021	The Linux Foundation
	Granted a LiFT scholarship by The Linux Foundation, giving free access to their online learning platform course catalog; completed the LFS201 course in preparation for the LFCS exam.
	Study notes available here.
2015 - 2017	Sapienza University of Rome, Rome
	Master's degree, Linguistics
	semantics, lexical knowledge representation, theories of syntax, linguistic typology
2012 - 2015	Sapienza University of Rome, Rome
	Bachelor's degree, Classics
2005 - 2010	Liceo Ginnasio Immanuel Kant, Rome
	High School diploma, Classical studies (Liceo Classico)

Languages
	Italian (native)
	English (quite fluent)

Spare Time
	fiddling around with electronics kits, trying to fix/break old hardware, meticulously cultivating the bad habit of starting voluminous books and never finishing them, practicing the art of making pizza at home, being a good dad