- Building and leading the Data Analysis team at OnTheBeach - Empowering other teams with strategic and ad-hoc data analysis - Identifying opportunities to accelerate product development and monetisation - Exploring large, complex, and loosely defined datasets to create actionable insights

On the Beach | May 2021 - Jan 2022

Senior Technical Product Manager

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Akamai Technologies | Apr 2021 - May 2021

Engagement Manager II

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Akamai Technologies | Sep 2018 - Apr 2021

Engagement Manager

- Technical advisory service: advising on web performance and security for my accounts; work to resolve technical issues. Special interest on devops and security. - Account and program management: own and manage all customer technical initiatives, escalations, incidents and events. Experience with geographically distributed teams and customers (including Fortune 500, FTSE and government accounts). Experience across the gaming, government and retail verticals. - Training and development: guiding accounts on best practice, presenting the latest developments in cloud technologies and demonstrating our product portfolio

University of East London | Feb 2009 - Aug 2018

Senior Lecturer

- Dark web analyst (2015-2018). One of the leading specialists in UK, leading a team working on extracting and analysing information from the dark web. The work has been featured on the first page of The Times, on the Guardian (multiple times), on the BBC, Sky and on most of main UK newspapers. - Head of IT Labs (2014-2018). Labs included around 100 dual-boot PCs and an OpenStack cluster. Technical supervision and ISO27001 alignment. - Core research interests in security, web technologies and data mining/data analysis - Programme Leader for the BSc Computing for Business (2010-2015) and MSc Computer Science (2015-2016) - Project leadership (funded): “Access and acceptability of mental health apps” (2017-2018), “Wellbeing and Resilience mobile app” (2016-2017), OpenStack cluster creation (2015-2016), Mcom (2010, mobile commerce, funded by the European Regional Development Fund). Working on ad-hoc projects with East London businesses.

Andres Baravalle | Sep 2000 - Aug 2018

Technology Consultant

- Project manager: setting up objectives, scope and plan(s); development and testing methodologies definition. Experience with Agile methodologies. - Senior web developer: Full stack web development on LAMP (over 70 projects since 1999; experience with Drupal, WordPress and Magento, amongst others). Developed a number of shopping comparison sites, including the one for MSN Italy. - System administrator: Experience setting up and maintaining high traffic web sites in Unix-like environments (Squid, Apache, PHP, Oracle/MySQL, Linux/ Solaris/*BSD).

The Open University | Feb 2006 - Feb 2009

Lecturer in Web Technologies

- Teaching and developing modules in the areas of web development, performance monitoring, capacity planning and e-business - Coordinating teams of up 9 members and supervising the management of up to 460 remote students per module and several hundreds at the same time - In charge of a collaborative project with O'Reilly, to deliver e-content to students using DRM technologies

University of Sheffield | Feb 2004 - Feb 2006

Research Associate

- Studying the adoption of Open Source software and open data standards in public administrations - Requirements elicitation and business process modelling - As an outcome of our activity, a number of European public administrations have been involved in the migration of more than 2,500 desktops to Open Source technologies

Università degli Studi di Torino | Sep 2001 - Jun 2004

Teaching Assistant

hourly paid lecturer or teaching assistant, both at undergraduate and at master level - Teaching web development, data structures and e-business

Display S.p.A. | Dec 2000 - Jun 2001

Web Developer

- Setting up and maintaining high traffic web sites in Unix-like environments (Squid, Apache, PHP, Oracle/MySQL, Linux/Solaris/*BSD): system administration, development of the core of server side code and performance optimisation - Coordination of small teams - Developed the first Italian shopping comparison engine that could be accessed with mobile phones (both through text messages and through the web), for costameno.it and shopping.msn.it - The web acceleration techniques that I have introduced in the company allowed them to reduce both the hardware requirements and the bandwidth costs

Europe Link Business Agency Srl | Dec 1999 - Jun 2000

Web Developer

Developing web applications for the corporate web sites.

My Education

Take a look at my formal education

Certificate of Higher Education, Mathematics and StatisticsThe Open University | 2019

PgCert in Education, EducationUniversity of East London | 2010

Ph.D., Computer ScienceUniversità degli Studi di Torino | 2003

Laurea, Mass CommunicationUniversità degli Studi di Torino | 2000

About Me

I work with local and global customers to help them make the best technical choices for their web assets.

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