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Led the AWS Network Capacity Service organization, overseeing Science, Engineering, and Product. Organizational Scaling: Scaled the department from 5 to 70+ people across 3 global locations. Structured the organization into multiple streams, managing a team of Managers to ensure scalability and skills coverage. Cost Efficiency & Automation: Directed the transition from manual, dashboard-based planning to an automated ML-driven system. Automated 90% of the scaling workflow, reducing headcount allocation overhead by 50%. Business Impact: Increased capacity planning frequency by 6x (from twice per year to monthly), aligning scaling plans to S&OP cycles, and enabling AWS to react faster to hardware shortages and demand spikes, directly protecting millions in revenue. Cultural Transformation: Implemented operational excellence rigors, proper for a critical service. No major events since production.

Held dual responsibility for technical architecture and leadership of the proprietary core technology division. M&A Integration: Led the architecture reengineering and platform consolidation for the acquisition of different companies, including Wall Street Systems, Rolfe & Nolan, & Triple Point. Successfully integrated disparate tech stacks, reducing platform redundancy and saving millions in capitalized re-engineering costs. Architecture Modernization: Redesigned legacy monolithic systems into microservices, maintaining sub-millisecond latency requirements. Agile Transformation: Spearheaded the adoption of LeSS (Large Scale Scrum) across an organization of 100+ engineers.

Global Management: Managed a distributed team of 50+ engineers and managers across Italy, India, US, Germany. Product Delivery: Owned the core technology of ION Platform, including Reference Data and Trade Management infrastructure. Led transition from on-premises only to Multi Tenant, Multi Cloud and Hybrid deployment. Talent management: mentored ION Group’s technical leadership.

Core Engineering: Developed low-latency systems in C++ and Java for high-frequency trading desks, polyglot MOM API, .Net high performance user interface. Performance Tuning: Optimized MOM layers for high throughput and low latency.