Summary
Alfredo Motta is a CTO with 12 years of experience building and scaling fintech products from prototype to hundreds of thousands of customers and £850k MRR, combining hands-on engineering with team-building and product-led decision making. He thrives in startup environments, having built a lending platform from the ground up in Ruby, established underwriting ML foundations, and automated loan origination and servicing at scale. A PhD-trained software engineer who values data-driven experimentation over intuition, he also coaches engineering managers and embeds high-quality agile practices across teams. Based in England, he blends research-minded rigor with practical delivery—an engineer who still blogs and engages publicly about software, lending and innovation.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Software Engineering, PhD Software Engineering at Politecnico di Milano
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at University of Illinois Chicago
English, Italian