Authors

Adam is a Machine Learning scientist. He is leading our dynamic pricing research team.

Alejandro is an IT professional with 20+ years of experience, 2 of which in lastminute.com group. He played the roles of Software Engineer focusing on Mobile development. His main areas of activity are Java/Kotlin, Objective-C/Swift, JavaScript/TypeScript and software engineering practices. He's actually working as Software Engineer in our App team.

Alessandro is our Head of Platform Engineering. His primary responsibility lies in overseeing the strategic direction and execution of the Platform Engineering area.

Alessandro is an Engineering Manager with 15+ years of experience, 4 of which in lastminute.com group.

Alessandro is the Chief Research Officer and the Chief ML Scientist at lastminute.com group. He is managing various teams, including Strategic Analytics.

Alexis a senior software engineer with 10+ years of experience. He has a strong knowledge of backend (using a lot of different languages) and frontend (web and mobile) development.

Alvaro is a Software Quality Assurance Engineer. He works in our QA team to ensure our products are well tested.

Andrea is a principal software engineer with 10+ years of experience. He is a fullstack developer with strong architectural knowledge.

Angelo is a Software Engineer with 15+ years of experiences. He is passionate about agile practices and functional programming in the last years

Armando Pannella is the Data & Analytics manager within the technology department. He began his journey at lm group several years ago, starting as datawarehouse manager and witnessing technological changes that led to the current Data approach and infrastructure.

Bachelor of Fine Arts, sculpture lover, Frontend Developer and Graphic Designer in another life.

Christian Speer joined lastminute.com group in 2017, as an Engineering Manager. He leads 6 teams with a total of 23 engineers. Christian is passionate about web technology, he is an author and has been working in his field for more than 20 years.

Corrado is our Chief Operation Officer here at lastminute.com group. He leads the tech team who develop the products and services that power the entire traveller journey on lastminute.com group websites. He also makes sure the travel company is kept operational and IT services are the best they can be. Having been part of the group for 15 years, he knows the company and industry inside and out. Corrado started his career as a software engineer, he rose through the ranks, and now sits on the executive leadership team.

Cristina is a Software Quality Assurance Tester with 10+ years of experience. She is a testing enthusiastic. She is always looking forward to learning more about the testing field, especially in automation.

Daniela is an experienced Product Manager, in charge of the product evolution of the my area and the post sales.

Emanuele is a senior software engineer with also a good background in telecommunication networks. He is very passionate about (pragmatic) Functional Programming but also very attracted by problems like scaling software development and managing its complexity thanks to tools like DDD, modularisation, clean code, CI/CD.

Fabio has over a decade of software engineering experience building and designing scalable applications and high-traffic distributed systems.

Fabrizio is a software developer with 15+ years of experiences. He is specialized in mobile application development, computer graphics and web development. He ❤️ computers 💻, music 🎸, tattoo, videogames 👾 and drawing ✏️. He is also the maintainer of this blog 👷‍.

Fabrizio is a principal software engigneer with 20+ years of experience. He is working on the back office web site used by the operator to handle the reservations, on the order management and on web services we expose to our "metasearch" partner to search flights.

Felice is an IT professional with 15+ years of experience, 10 of which have been with lastminute.com group. He started as an Android developer for the mobile app team, and after some enjoyable years, he decided to enhance his frontend and backend skills. His main areas of expertise are Java/Kotlin, JavaScript/TypeScript, and software engineering practices. Outside of lastminute.com, Felice is a ❤️ loving dad and husband ❤️, an aspiring artist 🧑‍🎨, and a dedicated calisthenics athlete 🏋️. He is currently working as a Software Engineer in the Service Management Area, taking care of customers.

Francesco is a software engineer with 15+ years of experience. He is specialized in mobile application development and backend development.

He is a senior software engineer and a technology enthusiast: he lives for the challenge of building the most powerful and resilient systems, on top of which smarter and more useful applications will be deployed.

Giancarlo is one of our principal software engineer. He is also an internal trainer for High Quality Software, TDD, Refactoring Legacy Code and one of the co-founders of the Ticino Software Craft Meetup.

Giordano is an Engineering Manager with a strong Product mindset. My approach is to continuously optimize the equation: Product = Customer x Business x Technology.

Giulia is an experienced Service Manager working in the Information Technology, directly reporting to Platform Engineer Area Director. She is a skilled ITIL(4) Certified specialist, able to understand dynamic business requirements and challenging environments.

Giuseppe is a product engineer with 9 years of experience, 6 of which in lastminute.com group. He specializes in object-oriented programming, particularly in JAVA, with a strong focus on enhancing performance and scalability. He's currently working in the transportation supply domain.

Ivan is a product engineer with 8+ years of experience, 6 of which in lastminute.com group.He's actually working in the flight supply domain.

Luca is a software engineer with +15 years of experience. He is working with our software architects team on the evolution of our platforms.

Juan is an experienced technological change leader. He helps companies to find the appropriate solutions to improve their processes, helping and mentoring teams to set everyone for success.

Lorenzo is responsible for the Data Center, Middleware Monitoring and Enterprise Services.

Luca is a software engineer with prior experience in software testing automation.

Luca is an experienced Software Development Team Lead with 25+ years of experience in the internet industry. He is skilled in Java, Kotlin, Agile Practices and Methodologies.

Luigi is a software engineer with 20+ years of professional experience around the world. Here at lastminute.com group he writes code, mainly in Java and Kotlin, and also cultivates his passion for software architectures and DevOps practices.

Lukasz is passionate software developer, mainly directed in Frontend technologies. He likes to code also in C++, INO/embedded stuff, or create my his own electronic devices in the free time.

Manuel is an experienced Full Stack Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the IT industry. Very keen on applying clean code and refactoring techniques.

Manuel is a SRE 20+ years of experience. He likes to play with Linux in lots of flavors, with a preference for Debian.

Marco is a Mobile Software Developer at lastminute.com, having joined the App Team in 2019. He is passionate about Apple and iOS development 📱, always focused on creating exceptional user experiences. Fun fact: you can quiz him about SwiftUI or Taylor Swift!

Mariano is a Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience. He is specialized in mobile 📱 apps development. He loves everything related to Apple 🍎.

Massimiliano is our Chief Architect. Despite 25 years of experience he’s still obsessed with software architecture and development. He lives in Milan (Italy).

Massimo Vailati is leading our SREs teams as Senior DevOps Engineer Manager. He is contributing to process adjustments, scalability enhancements, and the adoption of new technologies, fostering a closer collaboration between SREs teams and among all the key stakeholders.

Matteo is Software engineering research scientist with a background on software metrics, static analysis, complex networks analysis, refactoring, anomaly detection, monitoring and testing.

Mauro is an Agile DevOps Engineer with a big experience in web development, and he is geek just a little bit. He is Full Automation evangelist, DRY obsessed, KISS fan.

Michele is one of our IT Service Management Specialist. He is in charge of coordinate and manage processes for incidents and problems.

Mike is heading our Tech Team in Poland(DevOps, CloudOps, Frontend, Backend, Full Stack, and QA). He is working to develop our new cutting edge Content & Social Media Hub.

Niranjani is an application developer from Thoughtworks with 6 years of experience in full stack development and cloud technologies. She works as a software consultant in the static hotel supply domain.

Omar, a member of the App team, brings 5+ years of IT experience, with a focus on mobile development using React Native in the last 2 years at lastminute.com group. His specialties lie in JavaScript/TypeScript and Kotlin, along with a strong foundation in software engineering practices.

Otto is one of our Software Architect with 20+ years of experience, 2 of which in lastminute.com group. His main areas of activity are AWS cloud, automation and APIs. He’s actually working in the Core Architecture team.

Paolo is one of our Software Architects. He is an accomplished Software Engineer, specialized in Object Oriented Design and Analysis. Experienced software craftsman, Agile practices, Test-driven Development & XP engineering practices, SOLID principles, Domain-Driven Design and event-storming technique. He has also a vast teaching Experience with multiple private courses on TDD, SOLID principles, clean code and microdesign.

Paolo takes care of the overall implementation of SRE principles in company's whole infrastructure through automation. He is architecting solutions for scalability and reliability of on-premises, hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Paweł is a developer with 15+ years of experience.He is currently working on one of our Digital Experience Platform as a backend developer.

Pratap is a Software Quality Assurance Engineer working in our QA team.

Rabbani is one of our Software Architect with 20+ years of experience. He is specialised in Solution and Enterprise Architecture. Currently he is leading the Core Architecture team which is responsible for tech and enterprise initiatives in our technology function.

Raffaella is part of our People Culture team, working to craft an employee experience that can nurture engagement in the workplace, thus sustaining productivity, innovation, customer satisfaction, and, on a personal level, happiness and wellbeing.

Stefano is a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years. He has with a very strong passion for programming.

Thiago is an IT professional with 20+ years of experience, 2 of which in lastminute.com group. He played the roles of Software Engineer, Software Architect and Solutions Architect. His main areas of activity are Java/Kotlin, JEE, Spring, CI/CD, modeling, software engineering practices. He’s actually working as Software Engineer in a Product Engineering team.

Tiziano is a product engineer with 6 years of experience, 4.5 of which in lastminute.com group.He's actually working in the static hotel supply domain.

Tommaso is experienced Senior Software Engineer. He originally worked in Embedded Software Engineering, transitioned to Mobile Development, and lastly as Backend and Frontend (FullStack).

Valerio is Software Developer with 10+ years of experience. He is a Spring Source Ecosystem expert, AWS Certified, DevOps, and Distributed Systems enthusiast.