Summary
Davide Curletti is an engineering manager and leader with 11 years of experience building search, recommendation, and distributed systems for consumer products, currently leading Instagram Reels monetization at Meta. He previously served as Director of Engineering at Cameo where he modernized architecture—driving Kafka eventing, a move to federated GraphQL, TypeScript adoption, and monorepo consolidation across search, knowledge graph, and growth platforms. Hands-on across backend, frontend, and DevOps, he’s shipped production ML-informed search and ranking, video transcoding pipelines, and scalable CMS/merchandising systems. A former founder and varsity athlete, he combines product-focused engineering with team-building and recruitment, often promoting internal leadership and cross-functional communication. Based in Chicago, he pairs deep technical breadth (Elasticsearch, Kafka, React, Node, AWS) with a knack for turning monoliths into maintainable, high-performance platforms.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, 4.0, Diploma, 4.0 at Orchard Lake St.Mary's
Bachelor of Arts (BA), RTVF, Bachelor of Arts (BA), RTVF at Northwestern University
English, Italian, Spanish