About

Decisions made before certainty

I have been working with software since 1998, building distributed systems, integrations, and content platforms for organizations that need the architecture to hold under operational pressure, from early-stage startups to established teams scaling up.

Background

My early work was in real-time distributed systems and 3D visualization. I moved through SOA and enterprise integration at SeeBeyond and Sun Microsystems, then into content platforms at AKQA and Alfresco. I co-founded SoftInstigate in 2014 and spent the following years building and operating backend systems in production.

Skills

System design

Architecture that holds under operational pressure, not just on diagrams

Distributed systems

Building systems that work across networks, services, and failure modes

API design

Creating interfaces that teams can depend on and evolve without breaking

Data platforms

Managing data at scale with consistency and performance under load

AI integration

Making AI work within existing architectures, not as a separate layer

Technical leadership

Guiding teams through complex decisions with incomplete information

Products

RESTHeart

The open source backend for MongoDB

RESTHeart Cloud Platform

Managed RESTHeart services with built-in MCP server

Open source

Facet

Data-driven web framework: turn APIs into HTML, zero code

Ermes Mail

Async e-mail library and CLI for Java

RESTHeart CLI

Command-line interface for RESTHeart

All projects on GitHub →

Teaching

I created and delivered technical courses and workshops for enterprise clients and partner networks across Italy and EMEA. Teaching forces me to explain why decisions are made, and that sharpens judgment in the work itself.

Latest writing

EngineeringWhen a Platform Outgrows Its ArchitectureJul 2026

DatabasesRelational vs Document Databases: a Domain-Driven PerspectiveJul 2026

EngineeringThe system is working. That is the problem.Jun 2026

Get in touch

Thirty minutes to describe the situation and work out whether I am the right person for it.

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