Ítalo Vietro
Head Of Engineering at Parloa
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolÍtalo Vietro is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms, currently serving as Head of Engineering in Berlin. He has led large organizations (100+ engineers) across platform, infrastructure, and reliability functions, delivering measurable results like OPEX reductions, ARR growth, and faster deployment cadences. A hands-on technologist who cut his teeth building high-throughput systems and an API gateway in Go, he blends deep backend and DevOps expertise with product-led engineering practices. He’s driven migrations to Kubernetes, implemented service-mesh and observability patterns, and introduced FinOps and Shift-Left testing to align cost, quality, and speed. Known for developing middle management, career ladders, and clear OKRs, he turns engineering ops into strategic leverage for the business. Outside org-level work he remains an active open-source contributor focused on Go, Kubernetes, and resilient backend services.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Estácio de Sá University
Portuguese, English, German, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
apidoc10
microservices-application10
load-balancing10
go10
api10
microservices10
loadtest9
ansible9
api-gateway9
golang9
ansible-galaxy9
load-testing9
docker8
automations8
automation8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
motiv-labs/janus
Jul 2016 - Jun 2018
An API Gateway written in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1249 commits, 209 PRs, 562 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Ítalo's primary contribution focused on enhancing the API Gateway, a project written in Go. They implemented circuit breaker functionality to improve resilience and added support for rate limiting, demonstrating expertise in building robust backend services. The user was also involved in the development and management of build and deployment scripts, as demonstrated by changes to Ansible playbooks. This shows expertise in building infrastructure and managing build processes.
api-gatewayapigolangproxyreverse-proxy
italolelis/outboxer
Feb 2019 - Nov 2022
A library that implements the outboxer pattern in go
Contributions:5 releases, 21 reviews, 75 commits in 3 years 9 months
golangresiliencygodistributed-systemsevent-driven
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