Matilde Aliffi
Senior Software Engineer at GetSmarter
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatilde Aliffi is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of experience building cloud-native, secure and observable platforms, currently shaping infrastructure and developer enablement at The Economist. Trained as a philosopher (PhD candidate researching emotions and rationality) she brings rare disciplinary breadth—applying rigorous analytic thinking from cognitive science and ethics to systems design, security posture, and observability strategies. Her work spans CDN migrations, pipeline accessibility checks, logging and tagging architectures, and end-to-end cloud data infrastructure, with concurrent engineering for SikhNet’s backend and data platform. She has taught software development and cybersecurity, assessed critical thinking courses, and translates complex requirements into pragmatic, auditable solutions. Known for pairing scholarly curiosity with hands-on cloud engineering, she’s comfortable operating at the intersection of research, teaching and production systems.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of MilanDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Philosophy at University of BirminghamConservatorio di Musica "G. Verdi" di ComoMastér Ciéncia Cognitiva i Llenguatge (Master in Cognitive Science and Languages) Cognitive Science Philosophy, Mastér Ciéncia Cognitiva i Llenguatge (Master in Cognitive Science and Languages) Cognitive Science Philosophy at Universitat de Barcelona
Catalan, German, Spanish, English, Italian
Github Skills (2)
react2
devsecops1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Matilde90/InBrum
Apr 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:77 commits, 40 PRs, 71 pushes in 1 month
Matilde90/modulation-instability-sonic-pi
Apr 2020 - Mar 2026
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
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