Summary
Cosimo Ranieri is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Italy with 12 years of experience building and leading teams across payments, fintech, and fast-moving startups. He has led large, distributed payments organizations (up to a 30-person tribe) and shipped core microservices and platform roadmaps at companies like Currencycloud, Pleo, Coinbase Prime and Ripple. Equally comfortable as a hands-on tech lead and a manager of managers, he blends deep backend expertise (Scala, microservices, Kubernetes, AWS) with strong product collaboration and hiring experience. He has repeatedly created new teams and defined processes for efficient execution while mentoring engineers to raise delivery quality. His background includes early-stage founding and polyglot full‑stack work, which informs a pragmatic, end-to-end view of systems and operations. Based in Italy, he pairs startup agility with enterprise-grade discipline to drive scalable payments infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
Project Management, Project Management at New York University