Summary
Gianluigi Pierini is a senior staff-level backend engineer based in Zug, Switzerland, with over a decade of experience architecting resilient, distributed systems for payments and logistics at companies like Meta, Blockchain.com, Glovo and N26. He specializes in JVM-based microservices (Kotlin/Java), Kafka-driven async architectures, and cloud-native deployments across GCP and AWS, with a strong emphasis on testability, observability and incremental modernization. As a technical lead and founder he has repeatedly guided migrations from monoliths to microservices, balancing practical risk reduction with continuous delivery. Known as a clean coder and team coach, he combines hands-on implementation with mentoring and design ownership, and often drives platform-level changes that unlock new product use cases.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Universidad Rafael Belloso Chacín
Spanish, English