Summary
Silvia Mandalà is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 11 years of experience building backend systems and shipping full-stack, mobile, and test automation solutions across startups and large organisations. She has driven production-ready payments and public-sector platforms at Government Digital Service and HMCTS, contributed to scale-up efforts at TrueLayer and eBay, and currently builds backend services at CAIS. Comfortable across Node.js, Java, Scala and cloud-native tooling, she blends pragmatic engineering with functional programming principles and a strong focus on observability and secure payments integrations. Known for taking greenfield projects from inception to global adoption, she has delivered measurable business impact such as transaction scaling and campaign performance uplifts. Outside work she reads widely (and enjoys good food), bringing curiosity from an MSc in Computer Engineering toward ongoing study in applied neuroscience.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Applied Neuroscience (in progress) Neuroscience, MSc Applied Neuroscience (in progress) Neuroscience at King's College London
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Engineering at Università di Pisa
Italian, English