Summary
Michael Caldera is a Staff Software Engineer based in Italy with 12 years of experience building robust, cloud-native systems and microservices. He has progressed from freelance web development and founding a cloud migration startup to leading engineering teams and shaping architecture at companies like Divido, Community.com, and currently Juni. His technical toolkit emphasizes Go, Elixir, Kafka, TDD, and distributed systems, with hands-on experience across AWS and on-premise deployments. Michael combines pragmatic startup agility—having driven early-stage products like The Money Platform—with the senior ownership expected of a principal engineer. Colleagues rely on him to translate ambiguous product goals into testable, scalable services and to mentor teams through complex integrations. He brings a blend of full-stack roots and deep backend specialization that surfaces in steady delivery and platform-minded thinking.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Università degli Studi di Brescia
Italian, English