I’m in charge of leading the IT team with the following main responsibilities:• Bootstrap the software development team• Manage the development team• Define the IT strategy• Define the product roadmap• Scout technologies and vendors• Support the CEO in defining the business strategy • Support business developers and sales managersLexecute: a platform for Contract Automation.A solution using blockchain technologies for contract lifecycle management, digital lending, digital onboarding and other contractual processes.Head of engineering:• Plan project based on the company's overall objectives and resources• Managing product end-to-end• Coordinating internal teams• Manage software development by setting requirements, goals and timelines• Ensure compliance with privacy and security regulations• Actively contributing to design and development of the product• Being up to date with and advising the company on the latest technologiesBlockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology.Design and development of Proof-of-Concepts and pilot projects involving integration of DLT implementations with machine learning and business intelligence solutions, in a Cloud scenario and in a microservice-based architecture.R&D on pioneering applications of DLT for:• IoT and Industry 4.0• smart legal contracts• timestamping• notary and legal services• payment systems• supply chains in agrifood• digital identity and personal data

Main activities:* design and development of solutions for realtime Service Level Agreement monitoring using Python and a large set of opensource products (Redis, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Keepalived, Syslog NG , HAProxy)​* design and development of RESTful APIs and backend tier software using the Python programming language and many Python-based frameworks and technologies, like Flask, SQLAlchemy, Celery, py.test, Tox, Gunicorn, uWSGI* deploying IaaS cloud infrastructures using OpenStack and Ceph (RedHat OpenStack Platform and RedHat Ceph Storage), in single region or stretched multi-site topology* software development using Git, Docker and the Test Driven Development approach* design and delivery of continuous integration and continuous delivery solutions for Java-based microservices architectures, which are deployed on a full XaaS RedHat middleware stack (JBoss EAP, JBoss A-MQ, JBoss Data Virtualization, JBoss Decision Server, JBoss Process Server, 3Scale) on top of OpenShift (RedHat Openshift Container Platform)* design and delivery of e-mail systems implementing the Italian Certified Electronic E-Mail specification (PEC) for some of the official PEC providers* using opensource automation products to implement solutions for automated software building and testing, delivery/deployment automation and configuration management* configuring and tuning of MySQL/MariaDB, 389 directory server, Oracle DSEE instances on different replication topologies (master-slave, multi-master, multi-master with slaves)* configuring and tuning of high availability infrastructures on RHEL 6/7 and CentOS 6/7 operating systems using the Corosync/Pacemaker and Corosync/cman/rgmanager clustering software stacks

Main activities:* design and development of system services involving programming on Unix-based operating systems (C system programming, Python, Perl)* delivery of e-mail systems using a large set of opensource technologies, like Postfix, Dovecot, Amavisd-new, ClamAV, 389 directory server or Oracle DSEE, MySQL* system integration activities involving Python/Perl/Bash programming on Linux operating systems (RHEL, CentOS, SLES)* configuration and tuning of many opensource software and services: Apache, JBoss, Tomcat, RedHat Cluster on RHEL 5/6, Syslog NG* delivery and configuration of RHEV/oVirt infrastructures

Designing and development of web-oriented application using opensource technologies as Java, Javascript and PHP.Used Java framework: Struts, HibernateUsed RDBMS: MySQL, PostgreSQL