About Me
Hey! I am Lorenzo. I engineer backend infrastructure that is fast, resilient, and invisible.
As a Software Engineer, I focus on the hard problems that happen behind the user interface. My core expertise lies within the Java ecosystem, where I have extensive experience decoupling legacy systems and migrating them to modern Serverless and Containerized environments.
Recently, I have been expanding my focus into building high-performance analytical platforms (leveraging ClickHouse and Kafka) and exploring the integration of Applied AI into enterprise architectures, using RAG patterns and Vector Databases.
My engineering philosophy is simple: build systems that are easy to maintain, cost-effective to run, and ready to scale.
Skills
Languages & Frameworks
Distributed Systems & Data
Cloud & DevOps
Testing & Architecture
Projects
TubeGuardian
An AI-powered personal microservices project for semantic brand suitability based on the GARM framework. Leverages Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with Vector Databases to evaluate video inventory. Features event-driven AI inference via RabbitMQ and a PostgreSQL cache that slashes response times to <50ms and API costs to $0 for known content.
Moneyverse
An advanced, event-driven personal finance project. Engineered with a decentralized architecture using Kafka for asynchronous communication and ClickHouse for high-performance real-time analytics. Integrated with an Angular dashboard and fully containerized with a Helm deployment pipeline optimized to run in under 5 minutes.
Shorty
A high-performance, serverless URL shortener built as a personal project on AWS. Designed to solve Java cold-start challenges using Tiered Compilation and custom JVM tuning, successfully reducing cold-start latency from 2s to 50ms. Features Infrastructure as Code (IaC) provisioning via AWS SAM.
/ Other Projects
Choreography Enforcer (CHOEN)
Master's Thesis Project. A prototype tool that synthesizes Solidity Smart Contracts directly from BPMN 2.0 diagrams. Acts as an on-chain enforcer to validate inter-organizational message exchanges and process compliance.
Applied Data Science & NLP
A collection of advanced analytics prototypes including Stock Market Prediction (SARIMA), a conversational NLP agent via Rasa, and complex graph analysis using NetworkX.
Decentralized Ticketing Network
A secure event ticketing platform built on Quorum (private Ethereum network). Leverages Smart Contracts for immutable ticket issuance and validation to prevent secondary market fraud.
Experience
Add Value
- Migrated analytical workloads from Elasticsearch to Clickhouse, improving query performance by 2-5x across 100M+ procurement records.
- Transitioned a multi-node JBoss monolithic deployment to a serverless architecture, replacing EC2 instance clusters with 16 Java-based AWS Lambda functions and achieving a 35% monthly cost reduction.
- Built and maintained backend services and Angular frontend components for data-intensive pipelines, ensuring reliable delivery for enterprise clients across the US and Europe.
Blue Reply
- Built 10+ Spring Boot, Quarkus, and Apache Camel microservices to handle enterprise integrations and asynchronous workflows.
- Implemented SOAP/REST and JMS API integrations to bridge legacy systems with the new microservices architecture.
- Migrated 40+ routing components to Camel 4, directly reducing technical debt and improving production runtime performance.
Education
Università Politecnica delle Marche
Master’s degree in Computer and Automation Engineering
Grade: 110/110 summa cum laude
Università Politecnica delle Marche
Bachelor’s degree in Computer and Automation Engineering
Grade: 110/110 summa cum laude