Michele Orsi
Staff Software Engineer at Apple
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMichele Orsi is a Staff Software Engineer based in London with 11 years of professional experience and over 15 years of engineering practice, specializing in large-scale, regulated payments systems. At Apple he architects tokenization and Apple Pay platforms, leads the Apple Pay council, and builds paved-path delivery models that increase org-wide velocity and consistency. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps work—refactoring core database engines like TypeDB and migrating deployment scripts into Java—with systems-level architecture for payment tokenization supporting multiple products. A former founder and lead engineer, Michele has driven microservices transitions, built internal frameworks at scale, and worked on mission-critical validation at the European Space Agency, reflecting a rare mix of startup grit and enterprise discipline. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic technical direction, secure-by-design thinking, and measurable delivery improvements across complex, compliance-sensitive ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering Software Engineering, Master of Engineering Software Engineering at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di BolognaAccelerator Program Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Accelerator Program Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Mind The Bridge
English, Italian
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Github Skills (22)
edb10
back-end-development10
java10
javas10
databases9
devops9
database9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
cicd7
stream6
oauth6
audio6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
typedb/typedb
Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
TypeDB: the power of programming, in your database
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 10 PRs, 25 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Michele's primary contributions involve refactoring the Grakn engine, renaming core components, and aligning logging. The user also removed authentication features, indicating a shift in the project's architecture. The commits show substantial changes to the `HttpHandler` class and other core modules. Furthermore, the user worked on reducing bash scripts, migrating functionality to Java and thereby streamlining deployment and management.
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micheleorsi/grakn
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 76 pushes, 25 branches in 2 months
sqldatabase-for-aidatabase
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