Gabriele Cacciola

Chief Technology Officer | AI & Big Data

Salary / Daily rate

Wrexham, UK

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Skills

Big DataDevOps

Languages

Italian

About me

Intro

Senior CTO & Data Architect with 10+ years building enterprise-scale AI/ML, Big Data, and Web3 solutions at AWS, MUFG, and startups. Led digital transformations for Fortune 500 companies and co-founded blockchain infrastructure platform. Expert in cloud architecture, data platforms, and emerging technologies to accelerate your business growth.

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Work experience

Chief Technology & Product Officer

Bitfolks Technology

Jan 2024 - Present

2 years 10 months

Bitfolks Technology LTD is a specialized solo trader consultancy firm dedicated to delivering cutting-edge solutions in Cloud computing, Big Data, AI/ML, Blockchain (Web3 and DeFi), and Analytics.

Senior Enterprise Data Architect

MUFG

Aug 2022 - Jan 2024

1 year 6 months

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. is a Japanese bank holding and financial services company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. MUFG holds assets of around US$3.5 trillion.

Senior Data Architect

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Nov 2020 - May 2022

1 year 7 months

London, UK

AWS ProServe. Supporting enterprises undergoing a successful digital transformation journey on AWS in the Cloud computing, Big Data and AI, Blockchain (Web3 and DeFi), and Analytics.

Co-Founder & CTO

Ocyan

Feb 2018 - Mar 2021

3 years 2 months

London, UK

Ocyan is the cloud platform that enables faster blockchain adoption for your business, it is an infrastructure solution for your blockchain tailored needs.

Senior Analytics Engineer

ClearScore

Dec 2016 - Mar 2020

3 years 4 months

47 Durham Street, SE11 5JA

ClearScore is a business dedicated to helping users improve their financial well-being. It is the #1 way to access personal financial data, including Credit Reports and Scores, and Open Banking data.

Java Developer

Vibrant Media

Jul 2016 - Dec 2016

6 months

140 Aldersgate Street, EC1A 4HY, London

I was mostly working as a back-end developer, managing the development and manteinance of the OpenRTB protocol side. Technological stack includes Java 8 as programming language, Mockito and Cucumber for testing, Maven and Spring for managing the services, Spark and Kafka for big data manipulation, and Zookeper for node management. The team follows Scrum as agile framework to manage our work, and practicing BDD. Used Technologies: - Java 8 - Agile, BDD, Scrum - Git - MySQL, ElasticSearch - AWS - Jenkins, Docker - Apache Spring, Maven - JUnit, Cucumber, Gherkin - Trello

Full Stack Software Engineer

OpenBet

Oct 2015 - Jul 2016

10 months

Chiswick Park Building 9, 566 Chiswick High Road, W4 5XT London (United Kingdom)

I worked as a consultant for Skybet UK and Italy. I was in charge to interface with the customer, analyze, project, implement and deploy new features. Depending on the product involved, I was working in Java 7, Python or TCL. Most of my duties were on the back-end side, and we were using Informix as DBMS, Docker for virtualisation, Chef for configuration management. The team was following Scrum and then Kanban as Agile methodologies, and practicing BDD. Software Engineer lvl 2, SkyBet (Sportsbook) customer team

Technical Vice Coordinator, Data Analyst & Java Developer (Contractor)

University of Calabria

Nov 2014 - Oct 2015

1 year

Unical, ponte Pietro Bucci, cubo 41C, 8 piano

Project PONY EXPRESS: Contractor. Design, analysis, software development and writing of project documentation for the project CIP-ICT PSP-2013-7 - Project HOPE, coordinating a developer team consisting of 4 people using Agile Scrum Methodologies. Project CORE: Contractor. Discovering, analysis and management about Business Process within the organization, product oriented and client centric. Analysis of the drive style of the vehicles, focusing into acceleration and braking process during a run. Project and implementation of a service to export data from CORE (Regional Operative Central for public transport in Calabria). Project MDS: Contractor. Service of manteinance on the logistic project MDS (Master Delivery Schedule), used at EXPO Milan 2015. Management of the incident process with 24/7 availability, coordinating a 5 developers team plus a coordinator member, and producing weekly technical documentation. Developed integration in Java JPA, collaborating with NTT Data team.


Education

SDA Bocconi

Executive MBA

2024 - 2026

1 year 9 months

Università della Calabria

Master's degree

2012 - 2015

4 years

Università della Calabria

Bachelor's degree

2008 - 2012

5 years

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