Giorgio Carta is an engineering executive with 8 years in software leadership, currently Head of Engineering for Zalando’s Global Catalog where he drives high-scale platform strategy and cross-functional delivery. He has scaled and mentored multiple engineering chapters—most recently leading security-focused squads at Fidelity and managing 14 engineers across front-end, back-end, QA and data teams at Distilled—balancing people development with architectural consistency. His background in data engineering, bioinformatics and computational chemistry (PhD, Trinity College Dublin) gives him a rare blend of scientific rigor and pragmatic software craftsmanship. Giorgio has founded and led technical teams in startups and research settings, building LIMS, parallel workflows and production data services that supported drug discovery and analytics. He’s known for translating complex domain requirements into robust, scalable services and for fostering technical depth inside product teams. Based in Leinster, Ireland, he brings an interdisciplinary perspective that helps bridge R&D, platform engineering and product roadmaps.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computational Chemistry, PhD Computational Chemistry at Trinity College Dublin
MSc Pharmaceutical Chemistry, MSc Pharmaceutical Chemistry at Università degli Studi di Cagliari
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