Zürich Metropolitan Area
How do you architect cloud platforms that process 100M+ IoT data points daily with 99.99% uptime while reducing operational costs by 40%? That's been my challenge leading global engineering organizations building mission-critical platforms—and it's the same challenge facing every high-scale tech company. I'm a platform engineering leader with 15+ years scaling engineering teams and cloud-native platforms across global markets. At Hitachi Energy, I lead engineers across Switzerland, Poland, and India building IoT and cloud platforms for the power grid sector—a domain undergoing massive digital transformation driven by renewable energy integration. My leadership delivers measurable business impact: - Scaled engineering teams from 20 to 150+ while establishing modern DevOps practices - Built cloud platforms processing billions of real-time events from distributed edge devices - Led digital transformation to cloud-native architecture - Drove platform adoption serving utility customers managing $100B+ in critical infrastructure - Established engineering excellence culture improving velocity 3x through internal developer platforms Technical expertise spans Kubernetes orchestration, microservices architecture, event-driven systems, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD automation, and IoT platform engineering at industrial scale. My teams tackle the hardest platform engineering challenges—real-time processing, distributed systems coordination, fault-tolerant architecture, and security-first design. What differentiates me is combining platform engineering excellence with deep insight into enterprise customers undergoing digital transformation. I understand what it takes to serve large organizations with complex requirements and mission-critical reliability expectations—invaluable for B2B tech companies targeting enterprise markets. My passion lies in building high-performing engineering teams, establishing developer experience platforms that accelerate innovation, and applying technology to solve meaningful problems—particularly in sustainability and climate tech where my renewable energy expertise provides unique market understanding. I'm exploring VP Engineering, CTO, and senior platform leadership opportunities with tech companies and scale-ups in Zurich or remote, particularly those focused on platform engineering, cloud-native infrastructure, IoT, or climate tech. Let's connect if you're building something ambitious requiring proven platform engineering leadership and enterprise-grade reliability at tech company velocity.
Leading a global organisation building next-generation cloud and IoT platforms that power the modern energy grid. My team develops scalable, secure infrastructure that enables utilities and energy providers to manage increasingly complex power networks in real-time. Our platforms support the integration of renewable energy sources into the grid, helping accelerate the transition to clean energy and advancing global decarbonisation efforts. By leveraging cloud computing and IoT technologies, we’re making power grids more resilient, efficient, and capable of handling the bidirectional energy flows that characterise sustainable energy systems. We work at the intersection of energy infrastructure and digital innovation, solving challenges that span from edge devices monitoring substations to cloud-based analytics processing terabytes of grid data. Our solutions help balance supply and demand as renewable generation becomes more prevalent, supporting the path to net-zero energy systems.
I'm heading a global R&D organisation of multiple teams, dedicated to the creation of multiple software platforms used by various businesses and stakeholders in Hitachi Energy. Our platforms cover all aspects of our digitalisation effort, from embedded real time devices to cloud applications.
I lead the Service & Digital Solutions organisation, offering digital systems, products, and services to our customers. We develop high quality software for the mission critical domain (cloud and on prem), and our customers are demanding, because they are usually responsible for essential infrastructures (ie power grids). My organisation is globally distributed, and its members are expert in digitalisation, cloud, remote services, data analytics, and cybersecurity. I define the vision and global strategy of the product line, and make sure that our customers are getting the best possible values from our products. I am responsible for the funding and for running the budget of the product line, for finding and keeping the best possible talent, for creating efficient SW development processes, and for generating high productivity and creating the best environment where one could imagine to work.
I lead a distributed organisation, responsible for the digitalisation of our products and for providing digital services to our customers.
I lead a team of globally distributed Software Architects, working in the Substation Automation area within the Power Grids domain. Our team includes specialists in different areas, ranging from embedded real-time systems to cybersecurity. I'm also responsible for the R&D strategy of our products, and the main interface between R&D and product management, within our scaled agile framework-based organisation. http://new.abb.com/substation-automation/products
I am a research scientist and project leader. I am involved in several projects involving distributed systems in ABB's many areas of interest. Among my most important contributions are the design of an architecture for a large scale business integration (using SOA), a system to manage a local smart grid (using an autonomous multi-agent distributed system), a framework for the automated testing of embedded software (using a domain specific language), an automatic converter of legacy embedded code for new platforms and several components of a distributed real-time embedded system. As a project leader, I am in charge of the project's deliverables, budget, timeline, human resources and negotiation with the customers. A substantial technical contribution to the project is also expected from me. In addition, I am the deputy leader of my research group, and the manager of all the computer science interns in my department. Finally, I created and I'm currently the editor of a quarterly magazine, Spot On Software!, where the members of my department publish articles about new research projects or the latest updates in software technologies.
I was an active member of the MobiSys group (attending and giving seminars, partecipating at reading groups). I collaborate with various members of the group on Wireless Sensors Networks projects (e.g. DivergentGrid, Wildsensing). Together with Elisa Rondini, UCL, we were the first to port the Contiki OS toolchain on Apple OS X.
I was an active member of the Sensor Networks Research Group. My main research field was in Mobile Sensor Networks, with particular focus on using mobile agents (robots) to autonomously explore unknown areas without using GPS or other localisation infrastructures. During my PhD, as part of the RED-WSN project, I developed a simulation framework to test the exploration algorithms I created, and I ported the same algorithms on a real environment using a SRV-1 robot and several Tmote Sky sensors. The work was published in the most important conferences in the field and in the Journal of Autonomous Agent and Multi-Agent Systems. The RED-WSN project was sponsored from the beginning by EOARD (US Air Force), and renovated each year for the outstanding results achieved. Within my group, I also collaborate with other members in projects involving Wireless Sensor Networks (e.g. Wildsensing and Time EACM).
I was responsible for the development of a network simulator (using C++) to test the distribution of P2PTV media content, within the NAPA-WINE European project. With the simulator, I then had to envision algorithms to use layer-3 network information to improve performance at peer level.