Domenico Giordano.
Computers were never a career decision; they were the thing I kept coming back to long before there was a job attached. The first machine that was properly mine was a ZX Spectrum 128K, though what I remember is less the machine than the ritual around it — my father bringing home Load & Run, the Italian magazine that shipped with a cassette and pages of BASIC listings you keyed in by hand, hunting your own transcription mistakes before you had met the word debugging. By the time I reached his Amstrad — an 8086 running the early days of DOS and Windows — the shape of the interest was already fixed: first how the thing works, then how to make it do something it was not built to do. Everything that followed — the languages, a degree in computer science in 2004, and then the work — grew out of that curiosity rather than away from it.
Twenty years in tech, split between tier-1 consulting and in-house Italian banking. The first half at a tier-1 consulting firm (Analyst Programmer 2005 → Manager 2019), the second half in-house at a major Italian bank, currently as Head of Business Platform.
In parallel, I build products as a solo founder: Rollgate (a feature flag SaaS), Cyclebase (a white-label PMO template), plus a string of personal projects across crypto/finance, infrastructure, and scraping.
What I write here
Long-form essays, published when ready. Five pillars: tech management (leadership inside Italian companies), software architecture (web, systems, and design — see Two Webs), cloud platforms, AI, and tech career in Italy.
Voice: considered lucidity. Uncomfortable truths without demonising people. I don't write "inspirational leadership", I don't use Zuckerberg case studies, I don't explain agile to people who've been practicing it for fifteen years. I write about things I've seen with my own eyes, in real Italian companies, inside real contradictions.
Elsewhere
On LinkedIn you'll find shorter notes on management and career when I have something to say. On X I comment and occasionally publish technical pieces. On GitHub the code for the public projects.
For direct contact, LinkedIn DM is the way — I reply to everything that isn't sales.