Carlo Medas
VP Data Platform
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolCarlo Medas is a seasoned data platform leader with 11+ years building large-scale big data and real-time streaming systems across Europe, currently serving as VP Data Platform at Lansweeper. He combines deep hands-on expertise in the Apache ecosystem (Kafka, Spark, Flink, Hadoop) with product-minded leadership—shaping data clouds that power ML, analytics and actionable real-time insights. Previously as CTO and co-founder at Fing he architected a production big-data platform for the smart home domain, blending network engineering with predictive analytics. His background in telecom service-assurance and low-latency C++ systems gives him a rare cross-domain perspective on reliability and performance. Comfortable running distributed engineering teams and R&D projects, he’s equally fluent in technical design and program management. Based in Rome, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a track record of turning complex streaming problems into operational platforms.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Università degli Studi di CagliariProfessional education and courses
English, Italian, Spanish
Stackoverflow
813reputation
96kreached
10answers
4questions
hadoop
top-5%
Github Skills (18)
lz410
compression-algorithm10
zstandard10
deflate10
zlib10
compression10
zstd10
hadoop9
java9
spark8
boost-asio6
boost6
android6
timeout6
hdfs6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
fingltd/4mc
Sep 2014 - Sep 2022
4mc - splittable lz4 and zstd in hadoop/spark/flink
Contributions:7 releases, 62 commits, 15 PRs in 8 years 1 month
flinksplittablesparkzstdlz4
facebook/zstd
Apr 2016 - May 2020
Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm
Contributions:2 comments in 4 years 2 months
deflatezstandardbzip2compressionzstd
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