Giovanni Fumarola is a Senior Software Engineering Manager based in Redmond with seven years of experience leading large-scale data and analytics teams at AWS, currently overseeing EMR Spark and Iceberg performance, governance, and experience across 5 teams and 60+ engineers. He blends deep hands-on engineering (former Senior SDE on Athena) with program-level leadership driving storage, open table formats (Iceberg/Hudi/Delta), and query engine integrations like Trino/Presto. A long-time Apache Hadoop committer and PMC member, he brings rare open-source governance expertise to cloud data platform delivery. Prior work at Microsoft on Cosmos resource management underscores his strength in distributed systems and resource orchestration. Known for translating complex platform trade-offs into operational improvements, he pairs academic roots from Politecnico di Milano with practical impact at hyperscale.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Milano
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Giovanni Fumarola - Senior Software Engineering Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS)