cv — antonio pitasi

Experience

Sr. Software Engineer @ Grafana

2026 — today

Database engineering: working on Grafana Mimir and operating it at scale.

Founding Engineer @ Warden Protocol

2024 — 2026

Designed and built a distributed consensus system in Go: custom protocol layer, validator coordination, and fault-tolerant state management across a network of independent nodes
Sole engineer at inception; grew the company from 1 to 30 people while owning architecture, hiring bar, technical roadmap, and stakeholder communication
Built cryptographic systems including distributed key management and threshold signature schemes

Backend Engineer @ Qredo

2022 — 2024

Developed core services for a distributed multi-party computation (MPC) platform in Go: threshold cryptography, distributed key generation and signing across geo-distributed nodes
Benchmarked and prototyped optimizations for signature verification throughput

Senior Backend Engineer @ Ignite (formerly Tendermint)

2022

Built and optimized data indexers ingesting 100M+ transactions from 28 distributed networks: high-throughput event processing with strict ordering guarantees
Cross-functional shipping across frontend, backend, and product; product reached 50K MAU

Geckosoft 2020 — 2022 — Cryptographic notarization B2B platform. Shaped engineering culture with thorough code reviews, reduced CI pipelines from 70 to 10 minutes.

Nextworks 2019 — 2020 — Postgres replication engine for IoT over satellite connectivity

Zerynth 2018 — 2019 — Early engineer at IoT startup; Championed migration from Python to Go

Projects

pisa.dev Founded dev community in Pisa, Italy. Organized monthly meetups.

Open source Tinkering in Go, Rust, Zig, and more. rscx (Rust Server Components), plainvoice. (Very) minor contributor to the Go standard library.

Speaking & Writing Various talks at GDG Pisa DevFest, Elastic Meetup, Go MAD (Madrid). Technical blog at anto.pt.

Skills

languages Go (primary, 7+ years), TypeScript, Zig systems distributed systems, consensus protocols, event-driven architecture data PostgreSQL, Redis, time-series data, data indexing at scale infra Linux, Docker, CI/CD, observability, gRPC / ConnectRPC engineering system design, code review culture, testing practices, mentoring, hiring

Antonio Pitasi

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