filipporai
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Engineer, Tech Lead & Executive and Leadership over 18 years of experience, scaling regulated fintech and tokenization platforms. Spearheaded a $12M fundraising round generating 5x valuation uplift, architected cross-functional teams of up to 22 engineers, and delivered CI/CD transformations reducing release cycles by 80%. Track record of driving $2M+ YoY NP growth, 35% pipeline conversion improvements, and 50% operational cost reductions with AI automation. Deep expertise in tokenization, digital securities, RWA, CEX/DEX operations, and regulatory compliance across LATAM.
Experience: 11 years
Yearly salary: $150,000
Hourly rate: $100
Nationality: 🇮🇹 Italy
Residency: 🇪🇸 Spain
Experience
Chief Investor Relation Offi cer (CIRO)
eNor Securities 2024 - 2025
• Spearheaded $12M fundraising round: built investor deck from scratch, sourced 30+ VCs (Panthera, a16z), led all pitches as CEO's right hand, experiencing a 5x valuation uplift • Repositioned company from B2C to B2B2C Payments & RWA focus, revenue increase from 250k to 2M YoY within 6 months • Scaled BD and marketing from 0 to 10+ specialists; implemented KPI-driven execution improving pipeline conversion by 35% • Familiarized with CNAD regulatory strategy for tokenized securities; coordinated approval pathway enabling compliant token issuance in El Salvador • Led investor due diligence processes, prepared data rooms, and supported legal/fi nancial review for Series A readiness
Senior Software Engineer
Kraken 2021 - 2024
• Scaled engineering organization from 5 to 22 engineers; established hiring frameworks and career ladders reducing attrition by 25% • Drove CI/CD transformation increasing deployment frequency 5x+ and reducing release cycles from 2hrs to sub 20min • Implemented observability stack reducing incident MTTR by 50%, saving ~$200K annually in engineering maintenance costs • Defi ned engineering standards and developer tooling adopted by 8+ product teams, accelerating feature delivery by 40% (DORA Metrics) Tech & Tools: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Docker, GitLab CI, Grafana, Prometheus, AWS
Senior Software Engineer
GFK 2020 - 2021
• Productionised ML forecasting platform serving 50+ enterprise clients, reducing forecast generation time by 60% • Engineered data orchestration pipelines processing 10M+ daily records with 99.9% reliability Tech & Tools: TypeScript, Python, React, Airfl ow, GraphQL, GCP
Lead Developer in Test
UK Government (DIT) 2018 - 2020
• Established CI/CD standards adopted across 5 departments, reducing deployment failures and release time by 90%+ • Developed visual regression tooling adopted by 12+ teams, saving 100k+ year license with Percy Tech & Tools: JavaScript, TypeScript, Cypress, React, Python, CircleCI, AWS
Senior Developer in Test
ASOS 2017 - 2018
• Drove test automation for checkout platform (£2B+ annual GMV), reducing regression bugs by 60% • Implemented visual testing framework cutting release validation time from 2 days to 4 hours Tech & Tools: JavaScript, WebdriverIO, React, TeamCity, Azure
Skills
ai
aws
business-development
gtm
kubernetes
python
react
tech-lead
tokenization
typescript
engineering-manager
english
italian
portuguese
spanish