tetomat — Engineering Manager & Tech Lead

bash — 80×24

        tetomat@localhost ~ $
        whoami --verbose
      
        tetomat
      
        role      Engineering Manager & Tech Lead
      
        focus     Backend systems, DevOps, team growth
      
        location  EU / Remote
      
        status    ● available for interesting conversations
      
        tetomat@localhost ~ $
        cat mission.txt
      
Engineering is a craft, not a checklist.
I lead small teams building robust backend systems —
shipping clean code, sane infrastructure, and
processes that don't get in the way of good work.

        tetomat@localhost ~ $

tech stack — babyloncloud

backend

Primary language for the IaaS cloud computing platform, built from scratch. Concurrency-first, systems-level work.

backend · frontend

PHP & JavaScript

Object storage project stack. PHP on the server side, JS on the client — running on proprietary infrastructure.

infrastructure

Linux

Full ownership of proprietary bare-metal infrastructure. DevOps without the managed layer — administration, networking, and system-level control.

containers · vcs

Docker & Git

Containerised services across environments. Git Flow branching strategy, self-hosted Gitea, branch protection and PR workflows.

tech stack — sbobify (side project)

frontend

Next.js

Full-stack React framework powering the Sbobify web app. SSR, API routes, and file-based routing.

cloud

AWS

S3 for media storage, Cognito for auth, DynamoDB for data persistence. IAM-scoped credentials throughout.

ai / asr

Whisper & ASR

Automatic speech recognition pipeline to transcribe lectures and audio. Evaluating Groq and AssemblyAI as alternatives.

experience

Jan 2026 — now

Tech Lead

BabylonCloud

Leading a team of software engineers across multiple projects. Responsible for architecture decisions, code reviews, development processes, and bridging technical and product directions. Grew into this role from within after three years as an individual contributor.

Mar 2023 — Dec 2025

Software Engineer

BabylonCloud

Built and shipped two core platform products on proprietary infrastructure — no cloud provider safety net, full Linux stack ownership end to end.

IaaS Cloud Computing Platform

Designed and built from scratch in Go. A full infrastructure-as-a-service layer running on proprietary hardware — compute provisioning, resource management, and service orchestration.

Object Storage Platform

Distributed object storage system built in PHP, JavaScript, and Go. Managed storage lifecycle, access control, and client-facing API — running entirely on infrastructure I maintained directly.

side project

Sbobify

personal project

A tool that turns lecture recordings, audio, video, and notes into structured study material. Built with Next.js, backed by AWS (S3, Cognito, DynamoDB), with an ASR pipeline using Whisper for transcription.

off the clock

Geopolitics

Following international relations, intelligence history, and the grey areas between them.

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Espionage fiction

Cold War classics and post-9/11 thrillers. Le Carré territory and beyond.

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Hiking

Trails, elevation, and the kind of silence you can only find far from a keyboard.

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Outdoor gear

Quality kit that earns its weight. Current pack: Savotta Niukka.

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Developer tooling

LazyVim, chezmoi dotfiles, terminal workflows. The tools should stay out of the way.

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Audio & music

Lossless audio, FLAC to ALAC pipelines. The Nyquist theorem is not just theory.

get in touch

$ ping tetomat --reason "I have something interesting to build / discuss"
→ always open to conversations about engineering culture, distributed systems,
backend architecture, or team dynamics.

github

github.com/matteogaldi

/in/matteo-g-708bab85/

timezone

Europe / CET