Michele Ficarra
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Satispay
Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolMichele Ficarra is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating high-availability, cloud-scale systems, currently shaping the architecture of Satispay’s independent payment network from Florence. He previously led architectural and operational strategy for AWS CloudWatch Alarms, migrating legacy monitoring systems to low-latency, massively scalable designs while maintaining 99.99% availability. Michele excels at translating ambitious business goals into resilient, observable distributed systems and coaching engineering teams to adopt operational rigor. His background spans critical infrastructure monitoring, payments, and enterprise systems, combining hands-on engineering with cross-functional leadership. After several years in the Irish tech ecosystem he returned to Italy to apply cloud-native practices to financial services, helping simplify transactions for millions. An understated strength is his knack for turning monitoring insights into architectural decisions that prevent incidents before they surface to users.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science Engineering at Università degli Studi di FirenzeMaster of Science, Computer Systems Engineering for Business Management, Master of Science, Computer Systems Engineering for Business Management at Università di Pisa
italian, english
Github Skills (6)
sounds5
guice2
java2
testing2
junit2
mockito1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
michelefi/gwtcon-websocket
Sep 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 2 pushes, 2 comments in 6 months
cristcost/sensormix
Oct 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:15 commits in 1 month
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