Giuseppe Di Federico

GenAI team manager @ Poste Italiane | Lead with empathy and positive attitude | Microsoft Key Talent, Mach Graduate

Greater Rome Metropolitan Area

About

Technology leader with 15+ years of experience operating at the intersection of large-scale systems, architectural strategy, and organizational transformation. I spent over a decade at one of the world’s leading Big Tech companies, where I learned to design and execute technology decisions under conditions of extreme scale, complexity, and accountability. I currently direct enterprise-wide adoption of Generative AI within a highly complex organization, defining reference architectures, best practices, and operating models that transform emerging capabilities into repeatable, strategic leverage. My focus is on enabling acceleration without losing control—balancing speed, quality, governance, and long-term sustainability. Across my career, I have specialized in navigating ambiguity, simplifying complex systems, and raising the bar of the teams I lead. I bring a first-principles mindset, strong ownership, and a bias toward measurable outcomes, consistently translating technological potential into concrete execution. Passionate about leveraging technology to create impactful enterprise solutions.

Experience

  • Architect Manager at Poste Italiane
    Jun 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 1 mo

    I am responsible for strategic transformations at Poste Italiane Group and lead the next generation of architects who are poised to define the long term technological solutions

  • Microsoft (10 yrs 9 mos)
    • Lead Architect
      Feb 2020 - Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      - Strategic Leadership: Orchestrated major technological deliveries, leveraging extensive resources and managing strategic partnerships across the EMEA region. - Complex Solutioning: Successfully designed and implemented intricate cloud solutions for Microsoft's most critical EMEA clients. - Pre-sales Expertise: Engaged in high-stakes pre-sales initiatives, strengthening Microsoft’s footprint and expanding our clientele.

    • Senior cloud consultant
      Feb 2018 - Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      - Innovative Shift: Transitioned to the Apps domain, embracing disruptive technologies such as Microservices and Artificial Intelligence, demonstrating adaptability and foresight. - Customer Adoption: Drove the assimilation of cloud applications architectures, artificial intelligence, and microservices orchestrations frameworks in the customer landscape, establishing Microsoft as a tech frontrunner. Some samples of work I envolved: - Smart city: I architected the solution to enable an important european subway a ticket-less solution where customers has been enabled to flow in and out metro via a contactless credit card. I architected the best fare algorithm to calculate the cost to charge to the users at the end of the week. - Artifical Intelligence: I joined a ChatBot project based on LUIS (Language Understanding) to enable an important Telco customer to replace the customer service with artificial intelligence. I've been responsable for programming the robot to answer the request of the customers as a human both via chat and via voice. - Kubernetes architect: I designed one of the most complex Kubernetes architecture in Italy running on top of Azure Kubernetes service

    • Consultant
      Oct 2011 - Feb 2018 · 6 yrs 5 mos

      - Infrastructure Mastery: Led architecture in the Infrastructure domain, catalyzing the migration of substantial customer assets to the Azure cloud. - Global Project Leadership: Spearheaded the end-to-end design and implementation of Azure infrastructure for a prestigious global Swiss client.

  • Programmer at Accenture
    Apr 2011 - Oct 2011 · 7 mos

    I worked in ATS (Accenture Technology Solutions) During this experience I developed on Oracle Database 11g, 10g and the Oracle Business Intelligence tools

  • Software Developer at IBM
    Feb 2009 - Aug 2009 · 7 mos

    - Experience in developing using J2SE and J2EE - Client - Server Transaction using the SOAP protocol - Programming in pervasive environment using Java libriaries