Summary
Andrea Brancatelli is an experienced ICT architect and technology leader with 14+ years of practice designing resilient, cost-efficient cloud and middleware platforms, currently shaping architecture at Veikkaus in Helsinki. He has led teams as Head of Cloud & Middleware Governance and as CTO, delivering geographically distributed, disaster-redundant infrastructures with five-nines availability and driving compliance to ISO27001 and other certifications. His hands-on roots go back to running a BBS at 14 and system administration in enterprise Unix, giving him deep operational empathy that informs pragmatic architectural choices. Andrea blends product-minded engineering—having launched SaaS, IoT health, and e-invoicing solutions—with governance frameworks like Technical Lifecycle Management and ITIL. He has a proven track record of aligning technology strategy with operational excellence and cost optimization across diverse industries including insurance, telecom, and gaming. Beyond tech, he founded an independent music label, showing an entrepreneurial streak and a talent for building communities around niche creative projects.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
TCPIP Networking, TCPIP Networking at IBM Italia
ITIL - Information Technology Infrastructure Library - ITIL Foundation, ITIL - Information Technology Infrastructure Library - ITIL Foundation at AGSG srl
VMWare Certified Professional, VMWare Certified Professional at Magirus Italia S.p.a.
Maturità Scientifica, Maturità Scientifica at Liceo Scientifico Democrito
English, Italian, Finnish