Emanuele Garolla

Emanuele Garolla

Senior data engineer and tech lead. I build data platforms for one in four Italians.

Turin, Italy

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Now

Tech Lead & Senior Data Engineer at Intesa Sanpaolo, where I coordinate the design and development of the core banking data platform serving

16,000,000 customers

Flink · SQL · BigQuery

Migration

I led the data migration strategy designed to move

4,000,000 customers to IsyBank, the group's new digital bank

Java · PostgreSQL · Teradata

Before

Five years at Reply. iOS Engineer (Swift) and then Tech Lead of the Vodafone Station App (2M+ downloads, Red Dot Award 2019). I led a development team of up to 18 people, on an application serving 4 countries, and I was the customer's single point of contact.

My last project there was edge computing for Electrolux Professional: embedded Java on an IoT gateway, filtering sensor data on site so that only what mattered reached Azure IoT. Lower ingestion costs, better cloud performance.

Own work

On the AI side I build and run my own things end to end: RAG pipelines and LLM agents with Python on FastAPI, self-hosted on my own infrastructure, with observability I set up myself. I ship most of my code with agentic tools, and the hard part is not the speed: it is not building the wrong thing quickly.

Education

M.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino. Qualified professional engineer (Italian State Exam).


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