Technical manager with experience in Cloud based (distributed) systems, mobile apps, testing and research. Start-upper passionate about using emerging technology to find new business opportunities.

VP of Engineering @ Software is mainly about people: the ones who use it and the ones who build it. From July 2015 to Present (6 months) London, United KingdomData Strategy Lead @ Extracting knowledge out of data and eventually making the world a smarter place, prototype by prototype. From March 2015 to July 2015 (5 months) London, United KingdomHead of Cloud Services @ Team leading the cloud services team (5-10 devs) and tech leading the content store for DLCs. My role spaces from line managing the cloud team, leading the development of the content store for in app purchases, maintaining 99.5%+ uptime, supporting the marketing team for promotions, supporting the sales team for selling SaaS and supporting the community support team to help our users with payment related issues. Main technologies which we use are GOlang, Angular/javascript, AWS, Cassandra, Redis. From November 2014 to February 2015 (4 months) London, United KingdomHead of Cloud and Data @ Both managing and tech leading the Cloud and Data team (>10 devs). The C&D team is responsible for designing, developing and deploying all the services in Swiftkey Cloud as well as protecting users data and collecting and democratising usage statistic for data mining. Swiftkey Cloud includes: * Swiftkey Cloud Account (AAA) * Swiftkey Store * Back-up and Sync * Personalization * Trending Phrases * Language distribution The whole Swiftkey Cloud is a confederation of microservices build using the best technologies available including: AWS, GOLang, Clojure, Cassandra and Redis. From June 2013 to November 2014 (1 year 6 months) London, United KingdomSoftware Engineer and Test Architect @ Android, Java, Clojure, Roboletric, Robotium, NLP, unit testing, integration testing, functional testing, performance monitoring, evaluation metrics, Jira, Hadoop, map-reduce, Jenkins, Sonar, Testdroid cloud, Findbug, Lint. Swiftkey (TouchType ltd.) has various teams working on the various layers of the natural language processing pipeline, starting from data crawling, through natural language processing up to IME development, word prediction and spelling corrections. As Test Architect my role is to guarantee a standard level of quality across the various teams and to supervise the correct integration between the various components. By working side by side with various teams I am able to monitor and prevent integration issues or duplications between the various components. My daily responsibility includes: - Designing, releasing and maintaining various testing tools - Defining quality plans and testing activities with the various team leaders - Monitoring components' integration detecting pitfalls in the overall product quality - Supporting developers to improve their code quality - Training developers to use third party quality tools and frameworks From August 2012 to June 2013 (11 months) London, United KingdomCTO @ Python, Django, Java, Scala, Javascript, html5, css3, iOS, Objective C, agile, test driven design. PuzzleDev was an IT consultancy agency specialized in publication of 3D contents on the web, in web and mobile web Django applications and in solidworks plug-ins. As CTO my role was to lead the team from analysis through development and testing. I was leading a team of four composed by two software engineers, a web designer and a system engineer. All PuzzleDev customers and products have now been acquired by NetRising. Django web applications (Python, Django, Javascript, JQuery, Ajax) Some examples are: http://www.ghiblidesign.it/ fully integrated with a back office software to automatically create product customizations; http://www.resitalia.org/ optimized for SEO; http://www.sognandocasa.it/ loading estates information from a third party software. Experience with authentication and security-critical web based systems including user profiles, O-AUTH, session-based and cookie-based authentication, third parties token callbacks, bank and PayPal payments for e-commerce and deposit-based reservation systems. From June 2010 to August 2012 (2 years 3 months) Ravenna Area, ItalyJunior CTO @ Pyhton, Django, Javascript Created as a start up for a music related social network, TwoCubed is now a media company promoting emerging artists. As one of the founders I was contributing to the business plan and to the social network implementation. Among other projects we implemented MX-RAY a music classification tool capable of categorizing songs using Fourier transformations and neural networks. From August 2009 to June 2010 (11 months) Milan Area, ItalyProduction Engineer intern @ Java, Ant, Junit, code instrumentation, dependency injection, Java ME, Android During the 11 month of internship as a production engineer at Google I created and open sourced JInjector, an instrumentation tool for JavaME and RIM. The company also sent me for 3 weeks to Mountain View (California - USA) to start up the integration test suite for Google Maps on Android. From May 2008 to April 2009 (1 year) London, United KingdomSoftware Testing Engineer intern @ Java, Ant, Junit, Java ME, Blackberry RIM, Emma During the 5 month of internship I worked both on the internal testing tools and both on writing an integration test suite for YouTube on JavaME. From December 2007 to April 2008 (5 months) London, United Kingdom

Michele Sama is skilled in: Software Engineering, GOLang, REST, Java, Agile Methodologies, Python, Software Development, Testing, Web Applications, Test Driven Development, Linux, JUnit, Android, Programming, Unit Testing