Nicolò Calcavecchia
Chief Technology Officer at Apylon
Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolNicolò Calcavecchia is a technology leader and CTO based in Lombardy, Italy, with 13 years of experience building and scaling distributed cloud systems from research prototypes to production at companies like Zendesk and now Apylon. He pairs deep academic roots—a PhD in Computer Science focused on decentralized autonomic systems and autoscaling algorithms—with hands-on engineering and management, having progressed from software engineer to Director of Engineering. Nicolò founded a Ruby on Rails startup early in his career, giving him entrepreneurial instincts and product empathy alongside his enterprise experience. His background includes publishing research on VM placement and deploying large-scale distributed experiments on 100+ EC2 nodes, evidence of both theoretical rigor and pragmatic execution. Trained in leadership at Berkeley Haas, he blends technical depth in distributed systems with people management and strategic roadmap delivery. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who turns complex distributed challenges into reliable, scalable products.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Politecnico di MilanoAccelerate Leadership Program Executive Education, Accelerate Leadership Program Executive Education at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of Illinois Chicago
English, Italian, Danish
Github Skills (42)
rails8
zuora8
ruby8
plugin-architecture8
architecture7
soft-delete7
continuous-delivery7
cd7
mvc7
ruby-on-rails7
html7
activerecord6
deprecated6
ruby-client6
docker6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ncalca/principles-of-programming-languages
Apr 2013 - May 2013
Contributions:12 commits in 1 month
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