Valerio Cofano

• Lead backend engineer on a global, high-traffic digital marketplace operating in a regulated environment, serving millions of users worldwide.
• Joined to deliver a mission-critical legal compliance initiative for a key international market, working under strict deadlines and high operational risk.
• Designed and implemented a multimedia content verification (MCV) pipeline in a Django platform to validate, moderate, and control user-generated media lifecycle.
• Integrated secure video streaming workflows via custom third-party CDN APIs (including signed access and verification callbacks), ensuring reliable delivery and auditability.
• Architected asynchronous processing using Kafka, webhooks, and background workers to decouple external providers from the core platform and reliably handle high-throughput events.
• Improved observability and operational readiness by standardizing structured logging, actionable metrics, and failure handling for async workflows.
• Introduced modern architecture patterns and engineering standards (clear boundaries, modular design, dependency inversion, testing strategy), raising maintainability and enabling safer iteration.
• Promoted to Lead Software Engineer in Jul 2025; became technical owner for backend architecture, code quality, and engineering practices across teams.
• Led delivery of a flagship commercial initiative: a new product requiring a dedicated high-concurrency booking service for scarce promotion/visibility allocation (auction-like contention scenarios).
• Designed consistency and contention strategies for the booking domain (idempotency, retries, race-condition protection, and deterministic allocation rules) to support peak traffic safely.
• Coordinated cross-functional execution across backend, frontend, QA, product managers, designers, and project management; regularly presented architecture, progress, and trade-offs to stakeholders.
• Recognized as a key technical contributor to exceptional business growth through platform modernization and revenue-driving product delivery.

Promoted from Senior Software Engineer to Lead Software Engineer in Jul 2025.

• Contributed to the architectural evolution of internal web platforms and APIs supporting clinical and surgical workflows, balancing safety, usability, and maintainability.
• Led technical discovery and design discussions for new features, aligning constraints from R&D and clinical stakeholders with engineering trade-offs.
• Introduced CI/CD pipelines and developer experience (automation, quality gates, release reliability), reducing friction between development and deployments.
• Promoted best practices around code quality, testing strategy, and pragmatic design patterns to improve long-term maintainability.
• Collaborated cross-functionally with R&D, clinical experts, and product teams to translate real-world requirements into resilient software solutions.

Official title: Software Engineer

• Tech lead for a product-centric startup delivering a multi-tenant SaaS suite for recruitment, employee engagement, alignment, and performance monitoring.
• Led a cross-functional team (frontend, backend, product/design) and worked closely with the CEO to align technical roadmap with business goals.
• Defined system architecture, deployment strategy, and CI/CD pipelines across AWS and Google Cloud, prioritizing reliability and cost efficiency.
• Shipped and scaled two core products with distinct stacks (GraphQL/REST, Laravel, React/TypeScript) while enforcing a cohesive engineering standard.
• Owned key decisions around security, tenant isolation, performance, and observability for production operations.

• Played a pivotal role in refactoring and scaling a high-traffic review platform (~1,700 concurrent users on average).
• Focused on backend development and caching strategy, improving performance and resilience under rapid traffic growth.
• Validated improvements through simulation and load-oriented testing, scaling the platform to support up to 10× the previous workload.
• Supported large-scale data migration from a legacy platform to improved storage and database solutions, ensuring continuity and stability.

• Designed and developed a bespoke IoT monitoring platform tailored to customer needs, including a nationwide public lighting census system commissioned by ENEA.
• Worked on backend services, data modeling, and system integrations to support large datasets and multi-client requirements.
• Improved team capabilities by delivering internal training (MySQL) and sharing best practices for maintainable backend development.

• Built and maintained CRMs and business web applications across multiple industries, progressively taking ownership of end-to-end delivery.
• Companies: VincixGroup (Getinet), StudioProfit S.r.l., Serfin97 S.r.l., Beat N Beat S.r.l. (Founder).
• Founded and led development of a web-based event management platform, owning backend architecture, infrastructure operations, and database administration.
• Delivered full lifecycle work: requirements discovery, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvements in production.