Hi, I am Jacopo

I have been working in the tech industry for 10+ years. I know the right strategy to adopt for different kind of projects, how to plan effectively, how to prevent problems and how to solve them. I can recognise the best tools to be used for each task and how to design a system for short/long-term business goals. I am a fast learner, I like to share my experience and help to make others grow.

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Career

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Senior Data Engineer
TrueLayer

Feb 2023 - Present, Milan/London

Responsibilities:
Senior Data Engineer
Generali

Dec 2021 - Feb 2023, Milan

One of the largest global insurance and asset management providers. Established in 1831, it is present in 50 countries in the world, around 75 thousand employees serving ~67 million customers

Responsibilities:
  • Managing and coordinating the productionisation of many ML models deployed both on premises and on Google Cloud Platform
  • Creation of Python modules for model pipelines, api gateways, and models training/serving
  • Design and engineering for the entire ML model lifecycle: infra with Terraform, ETL, training, versioning, serving APIs on K8S, logging, metrics, alerting, etc.
  • Performance tweaking: microservices of different models chained together that must answer fast when receving the input in real-time directly from users on the website
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Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Sony Playstation

Dec 2019 - Dec 2021, London

Part of the Data Strategy and Operations department for PS5 release, providing Cloud Solutions to 10+ teams across multi AWS accounts and regions, following and defining best practices in terms of architecture, security, costs and automation.

Responsibilities:
  • Administration of many AWS accounts and other Services
  • Building tools for product teams to automate the releases in a GitOps fashion
  • Managing Jenkins, Terraform and Ansible extensively: 180+ Terraform repos in the department
  • Managing a massive tech stack in order to handle the amount of data ingested: there are multiple clusters of EMR, Airflow, K8S, Snowflake, S3 buckets etc.
Senior Data Engineer
Zoopla Property Group

Nov 2018 - Dec 2019, London

The property website Zoopla, price comparison service Uswitch, finance comparison website Money.co.uk, personal finance content site Bankrate UK, PrimeLocation and Hometrack.

Responsibilities:
  • Development and maintenance of Data infrastructure through Terraform
  • ETL jobs across different AWS accounts, GCP, external Services such as Fivetran or Segment
  • Defined the base of the current architecture of the data department for self service access using tools like Redshift, Glue, Step Functions, Athena, Lambda, Kinesis, ECS. Only the Zoopla brand had over 60M visits per month resulting in a huge volume of events per day to handle
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Software Engineer / Data Engineer
Various Companies

Apr 2011 - Nov 2018, Italy and Switzerland

Worked for companies such as Kuldat SRL, Lab Technologies SA, The Outplay SRL and Pirelli

Responsibilities:
  • Developing REST APIs using Python and different web frameworks
  • Development and maintenance of ETL pipelines
  • Using common relational and non-relational databases
  • Orchestrated both batch jobs and real time streaming
  • Concurrent and parallel computing