Filippo Diotalevi
Chief Technology Officer at Paidy
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolFilippo Diotalevi is a seasoned CTO and engineering leader with over 25 years of experience building and scaling fintech and digital banking platforms across EMEA and APAC. Based in Tokyo, he led Paidy’s technical organisation through hypergrowth to become Japan’s leading BNPL provider and played a central role in its $2.7B acquisition by PayPal. He specialises in balancing fast product delivery with strict regulatory, security, and operational requirements, having steered companies through PCI‑DSS, SOC2 and ISO27001 efforts while maintaining low‑latency, five‑nines payment infrastructures. Filippo has built and managed teams up to 150 engineers, led post‑merger IT integrations, and repeatedly matured engineering practices from startup to exit readiness. Comfortable working across cultural and regulatory boundaries, he also mentors early‑stage startups through Techstars Tokyo, bringing hands‑on engineering experience together with board‑level governance. A pragmatic technologist, he pairs cloud architecture and AI for engineering efficiency with a deep institutional knowledge of payments and financial compliance.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Post-Degree Course Telecommunications, Post-Degree Course Telecommunications at Università degli Studi di PadovaLiceo Scientifico “P. Lioy” - Vicenza
English, Italian, Spanish, Japanese
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Github contributions (5)
fdiotalevi/badges
Apr 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 21 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
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