Paolo Tagliaferri
Solutions Engineering Team Lead at Cloudflare
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPaolo Tagliaferri is a Lead Engineer with 11 years of experience building complex systems across embedded, real-time, cloud, mobile and IoT domains, now focused on blockchain and zero-knowledge technologies to scale decentralised systems without sacrificing security. He has progressed from research roles on security and homomorphic encryption to hands-on leadership at Horizen Labs and Telos, blending deep technical knowledge with delivery and team management. Paolo's career spans prototyping smart spaces, VoIP network engineering, and cross-industry product work for biomedical, aerospace and automotive clients, reflecting exceptional adaptability. He is known for quickly switching contexts, self-learning new stacks as needed, and delivering high-quality solutions under tight timelines. Based in Milan, he brings an uncommon mix of academic security research and pragmatic engineering leadership to blockchain and privacy-focused projects.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Liceo "Lorenzo Respighi" (Piacenza)Bachelor Degree, Bachelor Degree at Politecnico di Milano
English, Italian, French
Github Skills (110)
smart-tags10
typescript10
blockchain-platform10
blockchain10
blockchain-network10
webdriver9
golang9
cffi9
windows9
appium9
devops9
android9
recursive9
test-automation8
angular8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
telosnetwork/plonky2_goldibear
Jan 2025 - Sep 2025
Contributions:5 reviews, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 7 months
HorizenLabs/substrate-payctl
Apr 2024 - May 2024
Simple command line application to control the payouts of Substrate validators (Polkadot and Kusama among others).
Contributions:8 PRs, 19 pushes, 7 branches in 15 days
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