cv — antonio pitasi

Experience

Founding Engineer 2024 — present

Warden Protocol

Architected and built a distributed consensus system from the ground up in Go
Owned all technical decisions: system design, infrastructure, CI/CD, observability
Grew the company from 1 engineer (me) to a 30-person organization; hiring, roadmap, stakeholder communication

Backend Engineer 2022 — 2024

Qredo

Developed core features for a distributed MPC (multi-party computation) custody platform in Go
R&D on cryptographic performance: benchmarked and prototyped optimizations for signature verification throughput
Drove codebase refactoring and knowledge sharing across the backend team

Sr. Backend Engineer 2022

Ignite (formerly Tendermint)

Optimized data indexers ingesting 100M+ transactions from 28 distributed networks
Cross-functional work across frontend, backend, and product teams
Product reached 50K monthly active users during open beta

Backend Engineer 2020 — 2022

Geckosoft / Traent

Built B2B document platform with notarization features in C# / ASP.NET Core
Reduced CI/CD pipeline runtime from 70 to 10 minutes
Strong engineering culture: thorough code reviews, high test coverage, clean architecture

Backend Engineer, Nextworks 2019 — 2020 — Postgres replication engine for IoT over unreliable connectivity

Fullstack Engineer, Zerynth 2018 — 2019 — Early engineer at Industrial IoT startup; hardware to React dashboards

Founded the largest software dev community in Pisa, Italy. Organized monthly meetups, invited speakers, managed venues and registrations.

openswit.ch (defunct)

Nintendo Switch game price comparison tool. Next.js, Go, Postgres. 3K monthly active users.

Personal blog and photography portfolio.

Speaking

Various talks at GDG Pisa DevFest, Elastic Meetup, Go MAD.