About me

Summary

With over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, I am passionate about creating and delivering innovative, smart, and reliable solutions that delight our customers and stakeholders. As the Head of Research and Development at Proemion, a leading provider of telematics solutions for industrial vehicles, I lead a talented and diverse team of engineers and developers who work on cutting-edge technologies and projects that power the company's growth and success.

My core competencies include most of the tech surfaced since I started my professional career in 2000: SPA, Embedded, SQL, APIs, DevOps, automation, continuous integration/delivery, cloud computing. I can effortlessly pick up any tech or area I work on, and if I might dare I would define myself a "technical maestro".

I hold multiple certifications from AWS, including Solutions Architect - Associate and Professional, and RHCSA from Red Hat.

I am an enthusiastic adopter of new practices, and technologies. Open source lover who loves to work in challenging environments. I nurture my teams and try to be a generative leader. I am also an aspiring Team Topologies/Wardley Maps practitioner who believes in the power of continuous improvement and learning.

What I'm looking for

My motivation is to master the craft of leading technology organizations.

I am therefore looking for opportunities in technology organizations that are committed and need to improving their outcomes and align them to ambitious business objectives. I thrive in environments with blurred boundaries and even mixed responsibilities: I believe these environments give me a better opportunity to exercise my agency, cross-disciplinary thinking, and pragmatism.

An ideal position would be one in which the organization perceives Generative culture and Psychological Safety as strong enablers of performance.

My working hours are approx. 7:00 - 16:00 CET (UTC+1).

My CV

You can find the latest version of my CV here.

Notable articles/mentions

Mental Models for Engineers and Managers 🎲

Should you use Scrum in 2024? 🗺️

How to Create an Engineering Handbook

Proemion optimizes team and system boundaries for flow with CodeScene and Conflux: success story using Team Topologies and Codescene to architect for fast flow. Conflux was founded by Matthew Skelton, co-author of Team Topologies.

MS RFC 24: Mapscript memory management: a proposal and implementation of an extensive rework of MapServer memory management designed to make Mapscript reliable to use.

My Favourite Podcast Episodes

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Mirth: recover space when mirthdb grows out of control

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Quasi-code with Apache Camel

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An alternative auditing strategy for Grails apps

In some applications it is useful, and in some case required, that the application audits some or all database operations: for instance to track when a user updates, deletes or inserts a record. In Grails this is often handled by a plugin, like the Audit Logging plugin, which hooks into the Hibernate events and then logs the details to an audit table, including a timestamp, the user (if available) who initiated the operation and the type of operation. Unfortunately the Audit Logging plugin suffers from some issues  and if you, like me, have to ship today then you can only roll your own solution. In this post I will lay out a solution which is simple, efficient and should work in most scenarios. The general requirements are: only one datasource the underlying dbms must have triggers and some kind of session variables (most do, but I'll focus on Oracle) quartz jobs, background operations and other activities not necessarily initiated by an http request must properly initi...
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