Summary
Valerio Gheri is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling distributed, cloud-native platforms across Europe, now serving as Head of Engineering. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Go, gRPC, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP and a broad backend stack with a proven track record of reorganizing teams, hiring senior talent and defining technology strategy for organizations like Veepee and Betclic. Valerio has led large distributed organizations (up to 53 people) and transitioned from individual contributor to manager-of-managers while keeping a strong operational focus on observability, IAM and production support. He is pragmatic about architecture and delivery, fluent in stakeholder communication, estimation and budgeting, and has shipped mission-critical systems at scale. An active open-source maintainer and blogger, he routinely experiments with new tools and publishes his learnings, reflecting a persistent curiosity and a willingness to bake in continuous improvement. Based in Antibes as an Italian expat in France, he balances technical leadership with a hands-on coding mindset and an unexpectedly culinary interest in baking and pizza.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering;, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering; at Università degli studi Roma Tre
Master of Science Computer Engineering, Master of Science Computer Engineering at Sapienza Università di Roma
Italian, English, French