Hi, I am Jacopo

With 15+ years in tech, I have learned to navigate complexity: choosing the right strategy for short/long-term business goals, setting realistic plans and adapting fast when things shift. I help teams balance urgency with sustainability, provide architectural direction and believe in solving problems early, not late. I work to create environments where delivery is reliable, learning is shared and decisions make sense over time.

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Data Engineering Lead
TrueLayer

Feb 2023 - Present, Milan/London

A leading fintech providing real-time payments and open banking infrastructure to top-tier clients like Revolut, Wise, Klarna, and Just Eat. Active in 21 European countries with over £100B in annualised transactions and 15M+ users

Responsibilities:
  • Led the DataOps team, reporting to the Head of DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure. The analytics function includes 3 data engineers and 3 analytics engineers
  • Delivered a new AWS multi-account data platform leveraging Step Functions, ECS, EMR, Kinesis, Redshift, and DBT. Migrated core analytics workloads from legacy stack and introduced real-time pipelines
  • Achieved $230K+ in annual infrastructure savings, despite growing data volumes, by consolidating workloads, decommissioning costly services, and optimizing compute resources and query efficiency
  • Engineered Terraform infrastructure, driving automation and building tooling used across multiple teams; participated in on-call to resolve critical incidents
Senior Data Engineer
Generali

Dec 2021 - Feb 2023, Milan

One of the world’s largest insurance and asset management groups, operating in 50+ countries and serving 70+ million customers

Responsibilities:
  • Led productionisation of machine learning models on a hybrid infrastructure (on-premises and GCP), ensuring scalability and stability
  • Developed Python modules for model training, API gateways, and serving infrastructure, with full lifecycle management via Terraform and K8s
  • Built end-to-end ML pipelines (ETL, versioning, metrics, alerting), and optimized performance of chained microservices for real-time inference on the website
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Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Sony Playstation

Dec 2019 - Dec 2021, London

Part of the Data department for PS5 release, providing Cloud Solutions to 10+ teams across multiple AWS accounts and regions

Responsibilities:
  • Built internal tooling and automated deployment pipelines using Jenkins, Terraform (180+ repos), and Ansible in a GitOps setup
  • Administered large-scale AWS environments and supported teams with best practices on architecture, security, cost optimisation, and automation
  • Operated a complex data stack at scale, including EMR clusters, Airflow, Kubernetes, Snowflake, and S3 across multiple ingestion workflows
Senior Data Engineer
Zoopla Property Group

Nov 2018 - Dec 2019, London

Zoopla is a leading UK property and finance platform, including brands like Uswitch, Money.co.uk, PrimeLocation, and Hometrack

Responsibilities:
  • Engineered data infrastructure using AWS and Terraform, supporting high-volume event pipelines (60M+ visits/month)
  • Built and maintained ETL jobs across AWS, GCP, and third-party tools like Fivetran and Segment
  • Established the foundations for a self-service data architecture leveraging Redshift, Glue, Athena, Step Functions, and Kinesis
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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:
  • Developed backend systems, REST APIs, and ETL pipelines with SQL and NoSQL databases using Python, for batch and real-time data across domains like lead generation, IoT, manufacturing, healthcare, biology, advertising, and telecom