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Software engineer with 13+ years of experience building scalable web platforms and backend systems, with a strong focus on distributed architectures, API integrations, payments, and data pipelines. Started in frontend development and progressively specialized in backend architecture and end-to-end product engineering. Led cross-team technical initiatives, modernizing legacy platforms and delivering pragmatic solutions aligned with product and business goals. Since January 2026, dedicated full-time to parenting while staying technically active through published open-source projects and agentic AI coding tools, and is now open to new opportunities.…Software engineer with 13+ years of experience building scalable web platforms and backend systems, with a strong focus on distributed architectures, API integrations, payments, and data pipelines. Started in frontend development and progressively specialized in backend architecture and end-to-end product engineering. Led cross-team technical initiatives, modernizing legacy platforms and delivering pragmatic solutions aligned with product and business goals. Since January 2026, dedicated full-time to parenting while staying technically active through published open-source projects and agentic AI coding tools, and is now open to new opportunities.

Emilio Spatola

Back-End Developer, Full Stack Developer, Architect

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Software engineer with 13+ years of experience building scalable web platforms and backend systems, with a strong focus on distributed architectures, API integrations, payments, and data pipelines. Started in frontend development and progressively specialized in backend architecture and end-to-end product engineering. Led cross-team technical initiatives, modernizing legacy platforms and delivering pragmatic solutions aligned with product and business goals. Since January 2026, dedicated full-time to parenting while staying technically active through published open-source projects and agentic AI coding tools, and is now open to new opportunities.…Software engineer with 13+ years of experience building scalable web platforms and backend systems, with a strong focus on distributed architectures, API integrations, payments, and data pipelines. Started in frontend development and progressively specialized in backend architecture and end-to-end product engineering. Led cross-team technical initiatives, modernizing legacy platforms and delivering pragmatic solutions aligned with product and business goals. Since January 2026, dedicated full-time to parenting while staying technically active through published open-source projects and agentic AI coding tools, and is now open to new opportunities.

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Software engineer with 13+ years of experience building scalable web platforms and backend systems, with a strong focus on distributed architectures, API integrations, payments, and data pipelines. Started in frontend development and progressively specialized in backend architecture and end-to-end product engineering.

Led cross-team technical initiatives, modernizing legacy platforms and delivering pragmatic solutions aligned with product and business goals. Since January 2026, dedicated full-time to parenting while staying technically active through published open-source projects and agentic AI coding tools, and is now open to new opportunities.

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Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer at TheFork (TripAdvisor company)

November 1, 2022 - December 31, 2025

Promoted into Tech Lead after joining as Senior Software Engineer. Continued ownership of marketplace systems and distributed Node.js microservices architecture supporting European B2C and B2B platforms.

Tech Lead at TheFork (TripAdvisor company)

November 1, 2022 - December 31, 2025

Led and delivered cross-market B2C/B2B capabilities within a distributed Node.js microservices architecture for TheFork’s core marketplace. Built a gift card management system from scratch enabling strategic partnerships with major telco and retail brands, directly impacting company revenue. Delivered payment-enabled booking with Google Reserve, adding prepayment and credit card guarantee flows for a top revenue-critical partner integration. Led the decommissioning of Talend ETL, replacing it with a modern data pipeline (Airflow, Snowflake, dbt, Node.js) powering restaurant data feeds and enabling bookings directly from strategic partners (Google, Michelin, TripAdvisor). Acted as technical owner: defined architecture decisions and ADRs, wrote specs and execution plans, and saw changes through to production. Mentored a team of 5 engineers across distributed locations in Italy, Spain, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia.

Senior Software Engineer at Translated (Rome, Italy)

June 1, 2021 - November 30, 2022

Rejoined Translated after the digital transformation contribution period and continued work on TranslationOS-related systems.

Senior Software Engineer at Department for Digital Transformation (Translated open-source / Italy GitHub org contribution period)

December 1, 2020 - May 31, 2021

Six-month break from Translated during which contributions were made to open-source projects under the Italia GitHub organization, building and modernizing public digital infrastructure for the Italian government. (Position rejoined at Translated afterwards.)

Intermediate Software Engineer at Translated (Rome, Italy)

September 1, 2016 - August 31, 2016

Joined the core engineering team and contributed to backend systems and APIs powering TranslationOS, including internal and customer-facing integrations.

Senior Software Engineer at Translated (Rome, Italy)

September 1, 2016 - November 30, 2022

Part of the core engineering team building backend systems and APIs powering TranslationOS (Translated’s flagship continuous translation product) used by B2B and B2C customers worldwide, including companies like Airbnb. Designed and developed TranslationOS APIs from scratch for customer-facing integrations and internal operational tooling. Built an internal workload scheduler to automate project management tasks end-to-end, handling job splitting, assignment to deadline management, revisions, and invoice generation; processed ~2,000 translation projects per day with minimal human intervention. Built the Order Management Platform from requirements to production to coordinate and monitor 50+ concurrent translation projects efficiently. Led decommissioning legacy PHP systems, transitioning the stack to Node.js aligned with company strategy.

Senior Software Engineer at IBM

March 1, 2014 - August 31, 2016

Contributed to IBM Workload Automation, an enterprise job scheduling platform used by banks and insurance companies worldwide. Worked across frontend development, REST API design and implementation, and automated testing.

Web Developer / Software Analyst at Avanade / Beewēeb / IBM (multiple early roles)

October 1, 2012 - February 28, 2014

Worked in multiple roles across IBM, Avanade, and Beewēeb before returning to IBM as a Junior Software Engineer when a position opened in March 2014.