Emanuele Blanco
Senior Director Of Engineering (EL4), Regional Expansion at Wise
Singapore
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Top SchoolEmanuele Blanco is a senior technology leader with 12+ years of experience scaling engineering organisations and shipping product-led software, currently serving as Senior Director of Engineering at Wise in Singapore. He blends deep technical roots with executive experience as CTO, VP Engineering and director-level roles to align engineering teams with business value streams and outcome-focused KPIs. A pragmatic advocate for Agile, Continuous Delivery and DevOps, he has reshaped departments into cross-functional teams that use engineering metrics to drive measurable product impact. He has led engineering across fintech and consumer platforms in the UK and Italy, and mentors engineers through programs like MentorCruise. Notably, his approach balances capability-based team composition with accountability for results, and he maintains a strong professional network across London and Italy from frequent speaking engagements.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Istituto Tecnico Industriale "Francesco Giordani"Laurea (Bachelor), Computer Science, Laurea (Bachelor), Computer Science at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
English, Italian
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Github Skills (114)
testing10
reactive10
akka10
akka-streams10
alpakka10
in-memory10
kafka10
java10
finch10
kamon10
enterprise-integration10
kafka-connector10
reactive-streams10
syntax9
parser9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
manub/scalatest-embedded-kafka
Jul 2015 - Dec 2018
A library that provides an in-memory Kafka instance to run your tests against.
Contributions:12 releases, 235 commits, 92 PRs in 3 years 6 months
kafkatestingin-memorymemory
manub/reactive-kafka
Nov 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:5 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 1 month
apiapache-kafkastreamsstreamingapache
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