Leads a high performing team to shape the infrastructure backbone of Blockdaemon, focusing on improving performance, optimizing operations and scaling globally.The team is responsible and accountable for the end-to-end journey of all blockchain infrastructure provisioning, as well as managing the routing architecture for API traffic alongside various other platform initiatives. We're a globally distributed team, spread across 6+ time zones and localities, I pride myself in promoting an open, transparent working culture in the team pushing for prioritization of thoughtful, asynchronous communication and collaboration.Key Highlights:• Scaled distributed systems handling 3Bn requests/month with 99.99%+ uptime• Led the implementation to standardise blockchain observability across protocols at Blockdaemon leveraging open source tools• Built the platform engineering function at Blockdaemon to a team across multiple disciplines and time zones

- Proposed and standardized the monitoring approach homogeneously across various business domains, establishing a new metrics standard for the company. - Implemented and rolled out prometheus metrics across most of the blockdaemon estate, both blockchain infrastructure, platform and core services.- Proposal, architecture and implementation of a real-time cross-protocol blockchain height oracle- Build, maintenance, improvement and migration of various on-node core utilities- Proposed and advocated various innovative ground-breaking initiatives to generate new revenue streams for the business- Contributed to various open source initiatives in the crypto space

DevX sought to create various tools to increase engineering productivity at Pollinate including build systems, scaffolding as well as large-scale infrastructure projects that deal with building automation workflows and distributed systems.- Proposal and implementation of various initiatives to improve deployment cadence and reliability, namely a Canary deployment strategy, and GitOps as a standard.- Proposal and implementation of various best practices, including "sealed secrets", policy-as-code and various other cloud-native initiatives. - Conducted a large volume of interviews across UK, Australia and Canada, standardizing the Engineering interview process across system design, technical take home tasks and behavioural interviews- Part of the primary on-call rota, involved in numerous high priority incidents that have required coordination across the business

At Atom Bank, Stefano led various core banking teams across customer-management, document management, notification management, and payments. I was responsible for architecting, building, running, maintaining and operating various business-critical, cloud-native microservice stack with a focus on operational resilience.