Thomas Alisi is a seasoned software engineer, entrepreneur and CTO with 12+ years building data-driven products and cloud-native architectures across advertising, manufacturing, fintech and energy. As co-founder of WithLess and Deep Ventures he blends hands-on development (Python, JS, cloud infra, ML pipelines) with product strategy and team building, having scaled data teams from a few people to 30+ and delivered projects used by millions. His background as a funded academic researcher and post-doc gives him deep expertise in NLP, semantic web and data mining, and he has translated that research rigor into practical industrial savings and award-winning digital campaigns. He founded and runs Devcon.network, an invitation-only community of 300+ technical leads, showing his commitment to developer leadership and talent cultivation. Notable wins include architecting platforms for Pirelli that saved millions across factories and leading Google and Bloomberg collaborations that reached tens of millions of users. Based in London with a PhD in Informatics Engineering, he thrives at the intersection of R&D, productisation and large-scale cloud deployment.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Informatics Engineering Multimedia and TLC, PhD Informatics Engineering Multimedia and TLC at Università degli Studi di Firenze
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