Summary
Marco Monella is a senior infrastructure software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance, scalable storage and database systems for hyperscale environments. Currently on the Hyperscaler team at Everpure (formerly Pure Storage), he focuses on optimizing storage infrastructure, improving data durability, and innovating across large-scale distributed systems. His background includes production engineering at Meta on one of the world’s largest MySQL fleets and SRE work at Microsoft on Azure Cosmos DB, giving him deep expertise in automation, reliability engineering, and capacity-driven scaling. He has also delivered backend features in fintech at Curve and tuned low-latency trading infrastructure at Tower Research Capital, demonstrating a strong blend of systems, backend, and operational skills. Comfortable across the full stack, Marco pairs hands-on coding with public speaking and mentoring, and he brings a productivity-oriented mindset to tooling and workflow optimization. Off the beaten path, he’s contributed to academic course material in application security and enjoys making the world better “one commit at the time.”
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Nanodegree, Mobile Web Specialist, Nanodegree, Mobile Web Specialist at Udacity
Bachelor of Science - BS, Information & Management Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information & Management Engineering at Politecnico di Torino
Maturità, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Humanistic studies, Geography, Philosophy, Latin, English, Maturità, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Humanistic studies, Geography, Philosophy, Latin, English at Liceo Scientifico A.Aprosio
Center for Professional Development, On Campus, Computer Science - Scalability Engineering, Computer & Network Security (CS193S, CS155), Center for Professional Development, On Campus, Computer Science - Scalability Engineering, Computer & Network Security (CS193S, CS155) at Stanford University
English, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish