Marco Conti
Principal Engineer at Wire
Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMarco Conti is a Principal Engineer with 12 years of cross-domain experience, currently leading architecture and engineering at Wire after rising through roles from developer to VP of Engineering Architecture. He combines deep client-side expertise in C++, Objective-C and Swift with proven backend and systems thinking—shaping synchronization, caching and offline-first mobile architectures for secure messaging. Marco’s background spans game engines at Gameloft to enterprise and accessibility web apps, reflecting a pragmatic blend of performance optimization and product-focused design. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he has made robustness and test coverage improvements to the popular Carthage dependency manager. Educated at the University of Pisa and Trinity College Dublin, he brings an international mindset and a track record of mentoring engineers while tackling hard distributed-client challenges.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science - Interactive Entertainment, MSc Computer Science - Interactive Entertainment at Trinity College DublinBachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Università di Pisa
English, French, Italian, German
Github Skills (11)
swift10
versioning10
package-manager10
parsing10
semantic-versioning10
testing10
cocoa9
algorithms8
algorithm8
data-structures8
data-structure8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
Carthage/Carthage
Feb 2016 - Jul 2018
A simple, decentralized dependency manager for Cocoa
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 14 PRs, 73 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Marco focused on improving the Carthage dependency manager by addressing edge cases and enhancing its robustness. Their work involved modifying the `copyProduct` function to prevent data loss when copying files to the same location. They also expanded comments and fixed a typo in the codebase to improve clarity. Moreover, the user contributed to the testing framework, expanding tests for version specifications to cover pre-release and build metadata.
dependency-managercocoacarthageswiftpackage-manager
marcoconti83/marcoconti83.github.io
Mar 2018 - Jun 2026
Professional portfolio
Contributions:2 PRs, 31 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 4 months
javascriptreactprofessionalprofessional-portfolio
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