GAETANO PIAZZOLLA

Tech Lead
📧 gae.piaz@gmail.com 📱 +39 328 662 5975 📍 Trani BT, Italy 📅 03/12/1987 (37 years old) 💼 linkedin.com/in/gaetano-piazzolla-0387a19b 💻 github.com/gaetanopiazzolla
Gaetano
Tech Lead with solid experience in designing enterprise software architectures. Specialized in Java, Spring, and Cloud infrastructures, with a strong focus on AI agent orchestration and RAG implementations. Extensive experience in technical interviews. Technical writer and Open Source contributor.

Professional Experience

Tech Lead @ Strategy In Action
Feb 2024 - Present
Strategic platform for CEOs and business leaders.
"Strategy Copilot" development, driving the technical direction on AI agent orchestration and RAG patterns
Adopted AI-assisted development workflows (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot), accelerating feature delivery ~2x
Technical hiring and candidate evaluation
Stack: Java 24, Spring Modulith, Kubernetes, GCP, PostgreSQL, Neo4j, Firebase, GitHub Actions
Senior Developer & Technical Interviewer @ EPAM Systems
Feb 2022 - Feb 2024
Client: SoFi - Fintech with 12 million users.
Technical Interviewer: ~200 technical interviews conducted in 2 years
Skill Advisor and Talent Manager: ~100 skill advisory sessions
Definition of SLOs and SLAs for mission-critical systems
Restructuring of CI/CD Pipeline
Stack: Java 17, Kotlin, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Datadog, AWS
Senior Dev II - Technical & Team Leader @ DXC Italy
Jan 2020 - Feb 2022
COVID-19 vaccination portal for Campania Region (Italy).
Technical and project management of the team
Organization of Agile process
Stack: Spring Boot, Angular, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Kong, Elastic Stack, Grafana
Software Developer @ Dedalus SPA
May 2014 - Jan 2020
Electronic Health Record (EHR) - National Health System.
Senior Analyst Programmer for healthcare software
Mentoring junior developers and knowledge transfer
Process optimization and performance testing
Stack: Java EE, AngularJS, Docker, Oracle, Wildfly

Technical Skills

Leadership & Management
Team Building, Agile/Scrum, SAFe, Technical Interviewing, Mentoring, Talent Management
Backend & Architecture
Java (7-25), Spring, Microservices, API Design, System Architecture, RAG, GraphRAG
Cloud & DevOps
Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, AWS, CI/CD (GitLab/GitHub)
Database & Messaging
PostgreSQL, Oracle, Neo4j, Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, Snowflake
Frontend & Testing
Angular, React, TypeScript, JUnit, JMeter, K6
AI & Data
LLMs orchestration, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, CodeRabbit

Certifications

Neo4j Certified Professional (2026)
CKAD (2021)
SAFe5 Agilist (2022)
AWS Cloud Practitioner (2022)
CompTIA Security+ (2010)

Education

Master's Degree - Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Bari
Bachelor's Degree - Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Bari
Liceo Scientifico - Valdemaro Vecchi, Trani