Manuel Zulian is a pragmatic engineering leader with 11 years’ experience turning business needs into scalable, cost-efficient systems, currently heading Core Architecture at Colossus Bets in London. He specializes in cloud migrations and stack simplification—leading a move to AWS that cut hosting costs 38% and consolidating services by porting Scala endpoints to .NET. His hands-on background spans high-performance services (Scala/Netty), distributed storage (Cassandra), search (Solr), and full-stack work from AngularJS front-ends to MySQL schema and migration management. A former builder of license- and hosting-saving platform ports and single-sign-on systems, he combines team hiring and technical stewardship to reduce operational friction and bug rates. Known for doing “the dirty work,” he blends architect-level strategy with day-to-day engineering execution to deliver measurable business impact.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering (MEng) Computer Engineering at Università degli Studi di Padova
Liceo Scientifico, Liceo Scientifico at Istituto di istruzione superiore L.B. Alberti
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Manuel Zulian - Head Of Core Architecture at Colossus Bets