Roberto Prato is a seasoned engineering leader with over 15 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering scalable backend and frontend systems, today serving as Head of Engineering at Varda Foundation in Dublin. He has built and led multiple agile teams across API and microservices design as well as mobile app development, previously steering high-throughput platforms like Travelport Engage that handle hundreds of millions of messages per year. A former CTO and co-founder, Roberto combines product-building instincts—raising Series A funding for a news-clustering startup—with deep technical craft across Java/SpringBoot, Node.js and mobile stacks. He’s adept at hiring, coaching and scaling multidisciplinary teams while translating stakeholder needs into pragmatic architectures and roadmaps. Fluent in both startup and enterprise environments, he brings a rare mix of operational rigor and entrepreneurial curiosity rooted in an academic background from Politecnico di Torino and EPFL.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
computer science, computer science at EPFL
Science, Science at Liceo Scientifico
masters degree, computer science, masters degree, computer science at Politecnico di Torino
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Roberto Prato - Head Of Engineering at Varda Foundation