Paidy is Japan's pioneer and leading Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) service with the mission to spread trust through society and to give people room to dream. Using proprietary models and machine learning to underwrite transactions in seconds, Paidy offers instant, monthly-consolidated credit to consumers by removing hassles from payment and purchase experiences.After becoming a Unicorn in 2020, Paidy was acquired by PayPal in September, 2021 for US$2.7 billion, the highest-valued Japanese venture M&A transaction ever.

Orwell Group was a London based fintech startup who built a white label banking platform running completely on cloud infrastructure. At Orwell Group I was managing all software development activities across multiple development centres in London, Madrid and Poland (with an headcount of 40+ developers).My particular focus was growing and shaping the engineering organisation to enable teams to release more frequently and independently, increasing knowledge sharing and inter-team communication, and adopting agile, DevOps and DevSecOps methods.Orwell Group entered administration in the second half of 2019 and was acquired by Evolution Corporate Acquisition Limited.

Between 2016 and 2018 I worked with different customers as an independent consultant, focusing in all the areas of Software Development Lifecycle, from requirement gathering, architecture, design, development and operations.Mettle https://www.mettle.co.uk/Helped to build the first version of the challenger commercial bank in the UK, focusing particularly on the implementation of invoice, bills and receipts management, and on the integration with accounting software.John Lewis & Partners https://www.johnlewis.com/ Worked on the re-engineering on the internal ecommerce platform, helped developing fraud detection/profit protection servicesCamelot Group http://www.camelotgroup.co.uk/Camelot Group is the operator of the UK National Lottery and of several other lotteries worldwide.For them I developed the Instant Win Games backend for a white-label lottery platform.Her Majesty Revenue and Customs https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-revenue-customsWorked in the Portal Rehoming program to host the Self Assessment Portal on open source infrastructure, achieving severaml million pounds of cost savings

I have joined JP Morgan in London as a development manager with the goal of recruiting and leading an agile development team in the Cash Management division. I have then joined the Intraday Liquidity program as technical architect, with responsibility of both defining the functional aspects of the main application (realtime analytics dashboard) and evolving its architecture.

As Engineering Manager for the WHY Suite team, my responsibilities cover the design and development of WHYanalytics, WHYcampaigns and WHYplanner, three new analytics tools helping large and small businesses understand who their customers are.Previously, as Technical leader for the Core team, I've driven the design and development of the core software infrastructure of the company, including APIs, Message Oriented Systems, Content Management Systems and websites.

Software architect for the MyWeb mobile portal.Rsponsible for the software design and evolution, the integration with other Vodafone systems and of ensuring that the software architecture is aligned with the Vodafone Internet Services global strategy.

Co-founded Mindquilt (http://mindquilt.com), a social Q&A platform for the Enterprise and acted as CTO during its bootstrap phase.Worked in the initial idea, product definition, design, implementation, marketing and sales.Mindquilt has been selected for the Launchpad Enterprise 2.0 Final Four, (Boston on June 2010), and came second in the competition.Launched the product on September 2010.

- Technical team leader of a group of ten developers; over the months we have worked on several projects and products, part of the Vodafone Live! Portal and of the new generation of the Vodafone portal.I was responsible of discussing the requirements with the customer, providing estimates and feasibility analysis, designing software architectures, creating proof of concepts and delivering new functionalities or products.- Lead software architect for the MyWeb, Integration Proxy and Blueprint projects (parts of the Vodafone 360 platform).I was responsible for the software design and evolution, the integration with other Vodafone systems and of ensuring that the software architecture is aligned with the Vodafone Internet Services global strategy.

Sourcesense is a European Open Source systems integrator providing consultancy, support and services around key Open Source technologies.I joined Sourcesense in the first batch of employees, and worked with them in the design and development phase of Java Enterprise projects for telco and education customers.

Senior software engineer. Worked in a few projects for a customer in the healthcare market.

Worked mainly in IBM Global Services as IT Specialist. My area of expertise was software design and development with Websphere and Java EE, focused on financial market customers. While at IBM I worked for- Monte dei Paschi Siena (Jun - Aug 2002)- CSE/Banca Generali (Sept 2002 - Apr 2003)- Banca Popolare di Milano (Apr 2003 - Jan 2005)- Unicredit Banca (Jan - Jul 2005)

C Developer of software for quality recognition of wood and fruit.