Summary
Pietro Rea is a founder and engineering leader with 14 years building consumer and fintech products, currently shaping Meadow’s platform to modernize the $500B higher-education payments market. He blends hands-on mobile and full-stack engineering with product-led leadership—from leading iOS teams at Amazon and HuffPost to managing cross-functional squads and mobile platforms at Upside. An experienced entrepreneur, he founded Sweetpea Mobile, architecting production systems in TypeScript, Swift/Kotlin, and modern web stacks while consulting on CI/CD and operations for startups. Pietro is also a published author of practical iOS development books and maintains a technical blog, signaling a commitment to developer education and clean, maintainable systems.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Chinese Language & Culture, Chinese Language & Culture at Beijing Normal University
Advanced Studies Degree, Advanced Studies Degree at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology
B.A. Economics, B.A. Economics at Princeton University