About

👋 I’m Andrea, a technical co-founder: technology vision, hands-on engineering, go-to-market.

I’ve been writing software since 2010. I started as a freelancer, building websites and Android apps, and published a space shooter, Xstronauta, on Xbox Live Indie Games. In 2013 I joined Activate Media, a London startup studio, and spent four years building products for early-stage startups. In 2017 I moved to DAZN, the sports-streaming service: first on back-end and cloud services, then on developer experience as a Staff Platform Engineer, making it faster for engineers to build and ship, and interviewing and hiring. That led me to two venture-backed developer-tools startups, Gitpod in 2022 and Okteto in 2023, where I worked on cloud development environments: CLI commands, IDE integrations and more than 260 merged pull requests you can read on GitHub.

Since 2017 I had also been building Onoranze Funebri Cloud on the side, starting from the needs of a single funeral business. It became a company in 2021, and today it’s my full-time work: as co-founder and CTO I own the technology, and I still write code ask Claude Code and Codex to write it. Everything I’ve shipped along the way is on the Shipped page.

I’m an AWS Community Builders alum, and I love creating products, building companies, travelling and making bread and pizza 🍕.

How I work

Although I have a strong understanding of the whole stack, I prefer working on the back end and in the cloud. I like contributing to the entire development lifecycle from planning, architecture, coding, provisioning cloud infrastructure, CI/CD automation, testing, on-call, writing docs and giving tech-talks.

These days I write the plan, Claude Code and Codex write the code, and I argue with both of them in review. The architecture, the cloud bill and the 3 a.m. pager are still mine.

I have experience mentoring and leading company-wide initiatives, including interviewing and hiring other engineers.

I’ve experience working at enterprise level companies with millions of req/s as well as early stage startups, including bootstrapping my own SaaS startup.

Technologies

• Node.js
• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• Go
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Google Cloud (GCP)
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Serverless
• Terraform
• React

I’ve also worked with the following technologies:

• PHP
• gRPC, Protobuf
• MySql, Postgres, MongoDB, DynamoDB, OrientDB, Neo4j, FaunaDB
• Kotlin, Java, IntelliJ SDK
• RabbitMQ
• Elasticsearch, Solr
• Machine Learning, Python, TensorFlow, GAN
• Tailwind, Bootstrap, Material, Antd

and much more.

It all started with Pascal

My first programming language was, indeed, Pascal, then I learnt C, VB6, C# (I have also published an Xbox indie game called Xstronauta), Java, for a while I built Android apps, of course PHP with the LAMP stack which I have used at work for more than 5 years.