Marco Zanchi is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 11+ years building platform, infrastructure and developer-experience teams across startups and global organisations. He has a track record of turning culture change into measurable outcomes—reducing service onboarding time from weeks to days, rolling out observability and SLOs, and driving AI tool adoption across 60+ engineers. Marco blends security and operational rigor with product velocity, owning cloud, CI/CD, vulnerability management and incident processes while enabling developer productivity through tooling like Backstage and Terraform templates. His entrepreneurial work includes early AI-powered knowledge systems and a human-cognition assistant, giving him hands-on experience with LLMs and prompt engineering before they were mainstream. Based in London, he focuses on participatory citizenship, open government and data-driven transparency alongside commercial ventures like Wayji, which applies threat-modelling to SOC 2 readiness for SMEs. Colloquially curious and methodical, he favours habit-forming processes to embed lasting behavioural change across engineering organisations.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Mathematics, BSc (Hons) Mathematics at The Open University
Leadership Development Programme Business Management Marketing and Related Support Services, Leadership Development Programme Business Management Marketing and Related Support Services at Mt Eliza Business School
Physics, Physics at Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Technical High School Electronics, Technical High School Electronics at Escola Tecnica Federal de Sao Paulo
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