Summary
Joseph Pallamidessi is a London-based Staff+/Principal-level software engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating large-scale platform, SRE, and infrastructure systems across fintech and consumer tech. He has led company-wide standardisation, automated large-scale refactors, and redesigned on-call and incident processes for organisations of 100–500+ engineers while shipping self-service platforms and environment-sharing tooling used by 150+ developers. Technically fluent across Kubernetes, Go, Terraform, JVM tuning, Spark/Kafka, and multi-cloud/bare-metal networking, he combines low-level optimisation and research-driven techniques (GPGPU, genetic algorithms) with pragmatic platform engineering. Notable strengths include bootstrapping and operating 100+ high-performance clusters, delivering distributed tracing and observability for 300+ services, and creating developer workflows that drastically reduce feedback loops. He thrives in collaborative, learning-focused teams and seeks leadership roles in SRE, Platform, or Infrastructure where technical depth meets team enablement.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Mathématiques et informatique, Master's degree, Mathématiques et informatique at University of Strasbourg
Baccalauréat, Série scientifique, spécialité mathématique, Baccalauréat, Série scientifique, spécialité mathématique at Lycée Fustel de Coulanges
English, French