Accomplishments

• Delivered large-scale digital music streaming and e-commerce platforms for major European telecommunications and financial institutions, including Gruppo Telecom Italia, Banca Intesa, and Musicload.de.
• Built and operated secure content delivery platforms supporting streaming, offline playback, digital purchases, and catalog management for assets from Universal, Sony, and Warner Music.
• Developed audio transcoding and content processing pipelines that enabled scalable ingestion, distribution, and playback of large music catalogs across web and mobile experiences.
• Built high-volume push notification infrastructure delivering to millions of users daily across iOS, Android, and Microsoft platforms.
• Designed highly available platform architecture using MongoDB, Solr, HAProxy, Jetty, and Varnish to support performance, reliability, and operational scalability.
• Delivered editorial tooling, merchandising systems, and ranking services that improved content discovery and operational efficiency for business stakeholders.

• Lead Software Engineer, Mobile & Platform

  Oct 13 - Dec 141 years 3 months

  Lugano, Switzerland

  Responsibilities

  • Lead engineering delivery for carrier-branded music streaming and digital content platforms across web, backend, and mobile environments.
  • Own platform architecture spanning Java backend services, server-rendered web applications, streaming infrastructure, content ingestion, and catalog processing systems.
  • Design and operate secure streaming, offline playback, content purchasing, and digital distribution workflows.
  • Build and maintain content management systems, merchandising services, push notification infrastructure, and editorial tooling.
  • Partner with product, business, and content stakeholders on platform evolution, user experience, scalability, and operational reliability.
  • Drive technology selection, high-availability architecture, and engineering practices across platform services and customer-facing applications.

  Accomplishments

  • Delivered TIMmusic and Superflash Live, large-scale music streaming platforms serving customers of Gruppo Telecom Italia and Banca Intesa through secure streaming, offline playback, and digital content experiences.
  • Led development of the second-generation Musicload.de platform, providing secure music purchasing, catalog delivery, streaming, and offline listening capabilities.
  • Built audio transcoding and content delivery pipelines that enabled efficient ingestion, processing, and distribution of music catalogs from Universal, Sony, and Warner Music.
  • Productionized push notification infrastructure operating at millions-of-users-per-day scale across mobile platforms.
  • Delivered merchandising ranking services and editorial CMS tooling that improved content discovery, merchandising effectiveness, and operational workflows.
  • Designed and implemented highly available platform architecture leveraging MongoDB, Solr, HAProxy, Jetty, and Varnish to improve reliability and scalability.

  Stack

  • Java
  • Objective-C
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • AWS
  • Mathematica
  • Spring
  • Closure
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • Django
  • Bash
  • Nginx
  • Ubuntu Server