Summary
Damiano Barbati is a Technical Lead with 11 years of hands-on experience building and scaling web and distributed systems, currently leading engineering teams at Applied Blockchain. He’s designed high-availability geo-distributed clusters, migrated a 15-year LAMP legacy into 60+ microservices, and shipped APIs and dashboards used by customers including Airbnb, Uber and Skyscanner. Comfortable across frontend, backend and DevOps, his stack centers on TypeScript/Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, Docker/Kubernetes and AWS, and he champions simplicity to keep complexity manageable. He pairs product-first thinking with deep implementation knowledge—examples include a realtime smart-route planner with SMS chatbot integration and production-grade microservices for a global localization platform. Based in Rome, he brings a pragmatic leadership style that empowers engineers to question assumptions and deliver on tight budgets and deadlines.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Science, Diploma Science at High School (Scientific Lyceum)
Italian, English