Gabriele Ponzi is a hands-on technology executive and CTO with a decade of experience building backend systems, leading teams, and driving R&D projects across data engineering, Big Data, NoSQL and distributed systems. He combines deep Java and Python expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the popular OrientDB project around incremental backup testing—with practical experience in Node.js/Angular front-end work and functional programming. As a former team leader and project manager, he excels at marrying Agile, TDD and software quality disciplines with strategic technology governance and innovation. In his current role he defines technology strategy, fosters competence centers, and champions data-driven decision making across the company. He is a frequent speaker and technical evangelist who keeps the software factory current on emerging AI, IoT and analytics trends. Known for treating complex problems like puzzles, he brings both rigorous engineering discipline and a curiosity-driven approach to long-term technical vision.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Classical Studies, High School Diploma Classical Studies at Liceo Classico Socrate
Qualified Engineer for Professional Practice Ingegneria informatica, Qualified Engineer for Professional Practice Ingegneria informatica at Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale
Master's Degree Ingegneria Informatica, Master's Degree Ingegneria Informatica at Università degli studi Roma TRE
OrientDB is the most versatile DBMS supporting Graph, Document, Reactive, Full-Text and Geospatial models in one Multi-Model product. OrientDB can run distributed (Multi-Master), supports SQL, ACID Transactions, Full-Text indexing and Reactive Queries.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:76 commits, 1 PR, 53 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Gabriele's contributions focused on testing and implementing features related to incremental backups in the OrientDB database system. The commits demonstrate the development of tests to validate the behavior of incremental backups, including operations such as inserting data, creating backups, restoring backups, and comparing the results. The user's work involved writing Java code to interact with the OrientDB database. The commits also demonstrate the user's understanding of Java and testing methodologies.
Contributions:121 commits, 144 pushes, 1 comment in 2 months
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Gabriele Ponzi - Chief Technology Officer at Inmatica S.p.A.