Mattia Battiston
Director Of Product Engineering at giffgaff | Certified B Corp
Test Valley, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarMattia Battiston is a Director of Product Engineering with 12 years of experience building high-performing software teams and shipping reliable, production-grade systems. He combines hands-on Java craftsmanship—illustrated by his clean-architecture example repo—with a data-driven, Agile coaching style that reframes problems beyond code to deliver measurable business outcomes. At organisations from Sky to giffgaff he has driven technical excellence (TDD, pair programming, Continuous Delivery) while scaling teams, hiring for emotional intelligence, and creating psychologically safe, inclusive cultures. He is a regular conference speaker and co-author of Team Guide to Metrics for Business Decisions, bringing practical metrics and forecasting to planning and risk management. Known for being soft on people but hard on process, he favours small safe-to-fail experiments and continuous improvement to shorten lead times and reduce waste. Based in Test Valley, England, he enjoys exchanging ideas across the industry and mentoring engineers into leadership.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Italian, English
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Github Skills (8)
javas10
rest-api10
junit10
gradlew10
java10
gradle10
testing9
rest9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mattia-battiston/clean-architecture-example
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Clean Architecture Example (Java): Example of what clean architecture would look like (in Java)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:108 commits, 1 PR, 121 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Mattia initially set up the project and implemented basic testing with JUnit. They added a Gradle wrapper for build automation. The user then set up REST APIs using Jersey and subsequently switched to Spring Web for simplicity. Finally, they improved the example by setting up tests, integrated tests and added a scheduled job to showcase the project's features.
spring-bootlookcleanjavaarchitecture
SkeltonThatcher/bizmetrics-book
Jun 2017 - Oct 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes in 4 years 5 months
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