Nicola Gallo
Co-founder CTO at NitroAgility
Basilicata, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolNicola Gallo is a pragmatic software architect and co-founder CTO with 11+ years building cloud-native, fault-tolerant distributed systems and microservices, primarily on the .NET stack. He spent much of his career in the UK architecting enterprise-grade solutions for top-tier investment banks, bringing deep experience in high-availability systems, polyglot persistence and CQRS. As founder of tools like ZTAuth and Permguard and leader at NitroAgility and Neomathica, he blends hands-on coding with product-minded platform design and DevOps. He currently chairs a DIF working group focused on trustworthy AI agents, reflecting a growing focus on identity, governance and privacy for autonomous systems. Based in Basilicata, Italy, Nicola pairs a strong finance-tech background with a track record of launching engineering teams and delivering resilient distributed architectures. Notably, he remains very hands-on—shipping full-stack solutions while advising international NGOs and shaping standards for decentralized identity.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Università degli Studi di Bari
English, Italian
Github Skills (55)
ios10
authz10
security10
authorization10
swift10
macos10
plugin9
objective-c9
python-poetry9
xcode9
cocoapods9
versioning8
carthage8
packaging7
virtualenv7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ngallo/swift-task-library
Aug 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:52 commits, 6 PRs, 55 pushes in 1 year 2 months
task-parallel-libraryswifttask-parallelparallel
permguard/permguard
Apr 2024 - Apr 2025
Permguard is an Open Source Multi-Zone, Multi-Tenant, ZTAuth* Provider
Contributions:7 reviews, 72 PRs, 1475 pushes in 11 months
authorizationauthzcloudnativepermissionspolicy-as-code
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