Selected Experience
Prima Assicurazioni — Engineering Manager (2023–Present)
Context: claims domain, data-intensive environment, high operational criticality.
- Built and led the Claims Data Management team in a greenfield setup
- Introduced and scaled a Data Mesh-oriented approach for domain data products
- Partnered with Data Governance on company-wide data strategy
- Built and evolved the Claims Antifraud initiative into a broader Claims Machine Learning scope
- Mentored and developed internal leadership, including growth paths toward Engineering Manager responsibilities
Focus areas: team design, delivery execution, architecture decisions, Agile/Scrum operating model.
Prima Assicurazioni — Software Engineer (2021–2023)
- End-to-end development of claims platform features in a cross-functional team
- Worked across Elixir, Rust, and Elm in a CQRS/event-driven environment
- Contributed to the adoption of Kafka for event sourcing workflows
Ericsson — Lead DevOps Engineer / Platform Architect (2020–2021)
- Led a team of 7 DevOps engineers
- Designed CI/CD strategies for monolith-to-microservices migration programs
- Defined platform standards and technical choices aligned with enterprise constraints
- Provided third-level operational support in production-critical environments
Tech context: Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus/Grafana, GitLab, Jenkins, Ansible, Cassandra, MySQL, Bash, Python.
Immobiliare.it — Junior Solutions Architect (2019–2020)
- Designed and implemented improvements for scalable and highly available systems
- Worked on distributed components, traffic optimization, and performance-sensitive services
- Contributed across Go, Python, C/C++, Kubernetes, HAProxy, MongoDB
Earlier Projects (Freelance)
BlockID Authentication Service (Italy/Switzerland)
- Designed a blockchain-based authentication proof of concept
- Worked on privacy/scalability trade-offs with zk-SNARK-oriented approach
Data Aggregation Server (DASI)
- Built a dynamic backend for ingesting heterogeneous device data
- Implemented standardized API exposure and alerting capabilities
Mobile and Backend Product Work
- Delivered backend and mobile contributions for consumer-facing apps (Node.js, Python/Flask, React Native)
University Projects
- FLY DSL: contribution to a DSL for cloud/FaaS-oriented scientific computing (Python code generator)
- prefix-search: cache-oblivious string indexing implementation (Go + Python)
- gittogit: peer-to-peer git protocol experiment over DHT
- WSIL: data-driven app for technology trend analysis
Contact
For technical leadership and engineering execution conversations:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dario-di-pasquale
- Email: mailto:dario@dariodip.com