Summary
Stefano Varesi is a senior software engineer with 14+ years of professional experience and a 17-year passion for programming, currently building high-scale event-sourced systems at Klarna. He specializes in backend microservices with Java/Kotlin and Spring Boot, strong PostgreSQL expertise, and hands-on infrastructure work using Terraform and AWS. Stefano has led teams and migrations—designing non-blocking database migrations, improving platform observability, and modernizing legacy services—while keeping performance and reliability central. He values continuous learning over language labels, contributing to stable, test-driven delivery practices across CI/CD and contract testing (Pact). Based in Milan, he combines deep technical breadth—from C/C++ and Ada early-career work to modern cloud-native patterns—with a pragmatic focus on team collaboration and enjoyable engineering.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of Milan
Maturità scientifica, Maturità scientifica at Liceo Scientifico Elio Vittorini
Italian, English