Giuseppe Santoro

CTO at Fairmind

Rome, Latium, Italy

About

With over sixteen years in the software development realm, I've been instrumental in aiding companies to architect scalable and robust infrastructures. My leadership journey spans over 7 years, during which I've cultivated high-performing multicultural teams. My core competencies lie in technical expertise, fostering personal relationships, adaptability, and leadership. In recent years, my focus has been on the design and implementation of cutting-edge payment systems and real-time gaming platforms. ๐Ÿ“‰ Cost Savings: Achieved a 20% reduction in infrastructure costs through strategic initiatives. ๐Ÿ”Œ System Uptime: Ensured a consistent 99.9% system uptime over the past years. ๐Ÿ“ˆ User Growth: Elevated the user base from 250k to 1.5 million in just 4 years. ๐ŸŽ“ Training & Mentorship: Spearheaded training sessions and consistently prioritized 1-1 mentorship meetings to foster individual growth and skill development. ๐Ÿ’ฐ Revenue Impact: Over the span of 4 years, the advancements in our tech have collaboratively driven a consistent 30% YoY increase in company revenue. ๐ŸŽค Master of Ceremony: Proudly served as the master of ceremony for Codemotion's series 'Wannabe CTO'.

Experience

  • CTO at FairMind
    Jan 2025 - Present ยท 1 yr 7 mos

    As CTO of Fairmind, I lead the technological vision and execution of Mindstream, an advanced AI-powered platform designed to transform how organizations manage and synthesize vast amounts of unstructured data. Mindstream enables users to connect diverse information sources and interact with them through intuitive natural language queries, accelerating insight generation and informed decision-making. I oversee the development of its semantic data infrastructure, large language model integration, and enterprise-ready security and scalability features. My role spans product architecture, team leadership, and strategic partnerships, driving innovation at the intersection of AI, knowledge management, and human collaboration.

  • CTO at Together Price
    2019 - Dec 2024 ยท 6 yrs

    I've been at the forefront of revolutionizing how individuals share their digital services and experiences. ๐ŸŒ I spearheaded the formation of a diverse team, proficient in multiple languages and cultures, dedicated to constructing, designing, and developing a state-of-the-art digital platform. Our platform is anchored on the following pillars: ๐Ÿ“ˆ Scalability: Ensuring the platform can handle growth efficiently. โฑ๏ธ High Availability: Achieving a remarkable four nines uptime. ๐ŸŒ Full Distribution: Ensuring resources are spread out for optimal performance. ๐Ÿ”— Decoupling: Making each component independent for better maintainability. ๐Ÿ” Observability: Ensuring transparency in system operations. ๐Ÿ”„ Continuous Delivery: Streamlining updates and improvements seamlessly. To realize this vision, we've harnessed cutting-edge technologies including Kubernetes, Istio, Kafka, Elastic, and AWS.

  • Software Architect at Soldo LTD
    Jan 2015 - Feb 2019 ยท 4 yrs 2 mos

    At Soldo, I played a pivotal role in the evolution of a groundbreaking financial product: a multi-user spending account tailored to enhance companies' financial security. This product seamlessly integrated Mastercardยฎ debit cards with a state-of-the-art HTML5 admin console and an intuitive mobile app. During my tenure at Soldo, I was entrusted with: ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Platform Design & Development: Crafting a robust financial platform optimized for high-concurrency transaction processing. ๐Ÿ”„ ISO8583 Protocol Implementation: One of our primary milestones was the adept integration of the iso8583 protocol, ensuring transaction processing times remained consistently below 200ms. ๐Ÿ›๏ธ Dynamic Rule System: I innovated a flexible system that allowed users to effortlessly set spending limits on their cards. One of my significant contributions was the conceptualization and execution of the: ๐Ÿ’ผ Billing/Store System: These interlinked systems were adept at generating invoices, applying promotions, and facilitating monetary withdrawals. To bolster system resilience and adaptability: ๐ŸŒ Service Discovery Pattern: I ensured all our systems were intricately interconnected using this pattern. This architecture allowed us to deploy and modify services without disruptions and to scale horizontally in response to increased loads. On the mentorship front: ๐ŸŽ“ Tutoring & Training: Throughout my time there, I mentored numerous student interns, guiding them through their initial steps into the professional world. My aim was to shape them into productive assets for Soldo, equipping them with the skills and mindset required for a dynamic company.

  • Java Architect at Realfungames
    Jul 2011 - Dec 2014 ยท 3 yrs 6 mos

    Realfungames was born as spin-off of GiocoDigitale\BWIN to create social games. We have built a real-time gaming platform based on distributed message system, by combining many java/scala open source products and technologies as akka, zookeeper, activemq, websockets, DynamoDB, S3 elasticache, html5 and so on. Our platform uses the AWS infrastructure to achieve horizontal scale, and an homemade automation tool that helps us to build and release whole platform across the AWS infrastructure. Now this game-platform consumes about hundreds millions of messages per day and handle some thousand of concurrent users with few amazon medium machines. Until now www.realfungames.com has launched five games on this platform: - Realbingo https://apps.facebook.com/real_bingo/ - Real Gammon Tavla https://apps.facebook.com/real_gammon_tavla - Babel casino https://apps.facebook.com/babelcasino - My perfect man https://apps.facebook.com/myperfectman-game/ - Windcity https://apps.facebook.com/windcity

  • Senior Java Developer at GiocoDigitale Italia
    Jun 2010 - Jan 2012 ยท 1 yr 8 mos

    Design and implementation of the game platform for Giodigitale/BWIN, projected to achieve high availability requirements, based on hibernate, jms and rest. Design and implementation of PGAD proxy system to allow more concessionaires to work with AAMS' protocol.