Summary
Manuel Scurti is a Forward Deployed Engineer with nine years of experience building backend systems, data engineering pipelines, and policy-as-code modules, currently helping customers integrate and extract value from Witboost. Based in Turin, he combines hands-on backend development and system design with product-facing responsibilities—translating customer needs into platform improvements and feeding actionable feedback to product teams. He has led the Computational Governance effort at Witboost, architecting governance tooling that empowers teams to define policies centrally as code. Manuel’s background spans applied AI research for first responders, core banking modernization, and IoT platform improvements, giving him a practical, cross-domain perspective on reliable, secure systems. A longtime tinkerer who started developing PlayStation Portable homebrews, he pairs curiosity-driven experimentation with formal training in data science and computer engineering. Outside work he’s a passionate surfer and team-sports player who blogs about engineering and keeps contributing to open-source and community knowledge.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus Computer Engineering, Erasmus Computer Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Diploma Informatica, Diploma Informatica at IIS A.Volta
Laurea Magistrale LM Data Science, Laurea Magistrale LM Data Science at Politecnico di Torino