Summary
Silvano Riz is a Senior Software Architect and Developer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and building highly concurrent, scalable Java back-end systems for IoT, payments, and large-scale content platforms. He currently architects systems at CoolPlanet.io and previously led technical design for IoT/AR and metadata repositories at PTC, and for a content platform managing 80+ PB at Synchronoss. Comfortable across the stack, he leverages front-end and mobile experience to make pragmatic back-end design choices and has shipped NIO-based refactors and an open-source NIO multipart parser. His work emphasizes algorithmic rigor, data structures and query optimization to remove bottlenecks in distributed search and storage. Based in Ireland with a strong academic foundation from the University of Trento, he blends research-minded problem solving with production-grade engineering. A practical contributor to open source and a builder of core libraries, he prefers elegant, measurable solutions for high-throughput systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at University of Trento, Faculty of Science
High school diploma, Computer Science, High school diploma, Computer Science at I.T.I. G. Marconi Rovereto (TN)
English, Italian, ladino