Summary
Federico Marani is a Staff Platform Engineer with 15 years of experience building and leading cloud-native platforms, currently shaping company-wide Kubernetes transformations at Kraken Technologies from Madrid. He blends hands-on Python craftsmanship with systems thinking, having authored "Practical Django 2 and Channels 2" and published code regularly. Federico has led engineering teams, built scalable data pipelines and API layers for startups, and scaled backend organizations through pragmatic microservice and automation strategies. His background spans platform operations, DevOps automation, and product-facing architecture across AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Kafka and Airflow. He pairs technical leadership and mentoring with a practical focus on testability, code ownership and delivery cadence. An uncommon detail: he combines formal training in computer science with an MSc in Business Psychology, informing both technical decisions and people-first engineering management.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Network Administration in Linux Environments, Diploma Network Administration in Linux Environments at Consorzio FIT
MSc Business Psychology, MSc Business Psychology at University of Westminster
Degree Computer Science (Ingegneria informatica), Degree Computer Science (Ingegneria informatica) at Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Italian