Simone Marzola
Director Of Engineering at Klarna
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolSimone Marzola is a Director of Engineering with 13 years of experience building high-performance, high-concurrency web platforms and leading large, cross-functional teams. Currently heading Klarna’s Platform Engineering domain, he drives cloud, data, observability, identity and security foundations for 180+ engineers to enable product velocity at scale. A former CTO and serial hackathon winner, he blends hands-on architecture (asynchronous REST services, real-time pipelines) with strategic planning and agile delivery. An active open-source contributor and EuroPython Society member, he champions pragmatic engineering practices and has a track record of turning complex distributed systems into reliable, developer-friendly platforms. Based in Stockholm, he enjoys translating deep technical expertise into measurable business impact while mentoring the next generation of engineers.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Politecnico di Torino
English, Italian
Stackoverflow
26reputation
145reached
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Github Skills (89)
wrapping10
generic-interface9
api8
pyramid8
lambda8
aws-lambda8
serverless7
python7
serverless-framework7
cornice7
searchable7
aws7
aws-apigateway6
xcode6
debugging6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
smarzola/sharknado
Nov 2014 - Feb 2018
Contributions:17 commits, 4 pushes in 3 years 4 months
smarzola/anypubsub
Sep 2013 - May 2017
A generic interface wrapping multiple backends to provide a consistent pubsub API
Contributions:1 release, 39 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 8 months
apibackendsgeneric-interfaceconsistentgeneric
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