Summary
Stefano Tempesta is a strategic Head of Engineering with 11+ years building secure, scalable financial and web3 platforms and a track record of translating complex regulatory requirements into elegant technical architectures. He has led product and engineering teams across enterprise and blockchain domains—from launching a high-performance Layer‑1 mainnet to enabling tokenised financial markets—and advised Australia’s National Blockchain Roadmap on digital identity and credentials. A rare blend of practitioner and evangelist, Stefano is a Microsoft Regional Director and multi-category MVP, a former Azure confidential computing program manager, and an author/speaker who teaches blockchain and AI strategy. He combines cloud security, data privacy and decentralised identity expertise with product leadership experience at organisations like ConsenSys, Microsoft and EF Education First. Multilingual and internationally mobile, he holds executive education in blockchain from MIT Sloan and a Global MBA background, and is known for bringing pragmatic, future-ready solutions to regulated finance. An avid technologist and community-builder, he quietly pairs deep technical chops with a can-do, cross-cultural leadership style.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Blockchain Technologies: Innovation and Applications, Blockchain Technologies: Innovation and Applications at MIT Sloan School of Management
Global MBA, Global MBA at London School of Business and Finance LSBF
Spanish, Italian, English, sindarin, Ukrainian