Emanuele Pugliese

Principal Cloud Architect & AI Consultant

Available for Consulting

Farnborough, Hampshire, UK | puglieseweb@gmail.com | LinkedIn

Professional Summary

Cloud and solutions architect with 15+ years designing event-driven, distributed systems at scale on AWS. Specialist in microservices, Apache Kafka streaming and Kubernetes-based platforms, with a strong record of modernising legacy estates, leading large migrations and setting reference architecture for multi-country engineering teams. AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate. Domain background in high-assurance financial-services payments.

Core Skills

Cloud & AWS	AWS (Solutions Architect – Associate), multi-AZ / multi-region design, resilience & cost optimisation
Containers	Kubernetes, Docker/Podman, OpenShift (OCP), Pivotal Cloud Foundry
Architecture	Event-driven & microservices architecture, domain modelling, reference architecture, ADR-driven governance, REST API design
Streaming & Data	Apache Kafka, Kafka Streams, Confluent, Spark Streaming, Storm, HBase, PostgreSQL, Oracle
Languages	Java, Spring Boot / Cloud / Batch / Integration, Avro, JSON
Delivery	Agile / SAFe, TDD / BDD, CI/CD (Jenkins, Bamboo), Git, SonarQube, Instana observability

Professional Experience

Key products delivered — from current work back to where it all started.

PropertyHaven

In progress

2026 – Present

puglieseweb LTD

UK rental compliance platform connecting landlords with certified tradespeople for electrical safety certificates.

AWS React TypeScript Python Astro Vite Tailwind CSS Turborepo SAM DynamoDB S3 Cognito CloudFront API Gateway KMS Bedrock / Claude AI EventBridge GitHub Actions Sentry

SystemDox

2026 – Present

puglieseweb LTD

B2B enterprise software-development documentation platform with AI-powered spec generation, planning, and quality analysis.

AWS React TypeScript Python Astro Vite Tailwind CSS Turborepo SAM DynamoDB S3 Cognito CloudFront API Gateway WebSocket KMS Claude API SQS GitHub Actions Sentry

Noteble

2026

puglieseweb LTD

AI-powered note-taking and document management app with real-time collaboration, streaming, and transcription.

AWS React TypeScript Python Astro Vite Tailwind CSS Turborepo SAM DynamoDB S3 Cognito CloudFront API Gateway WebSocket KMS Bedrock / Claude AI SQS SES GitHub Actions Sentry Stripe

Google Pay & Samsung Pay Wallet

2020 – Present

Discover → Capital One

Digital wallet platform enabling EMV tokenisation, PSD2 SCA, and transit / offline payments — architected across multi-country teams as Solution SME then Principal / Application Architect.

AWS Kafka / Confluent Kubernetes Docker / Podman Spring Boot EMV Tokenisation OpenShift

Real-time Payments Platform

2016 – 2020

Discover Financial Services

Greenfield real-time payment system with event-driven streaming and microservice architecture, from core engineering through to Tech Lead.

Spring Boot / Cloud Kafka Storm Spark HBase PCF Jenkins CI/CD SAFe

Virgin Media Portal & SOA Platform

2011 – 2016

Virgin Media (via FDM Group)

Enterprise portal and middleware services — from Java consultant to Scrum Master delivering Spring MVC portals and SOAP/REST integrations.

Java 8 Spring MVC / Security Hibernate JAX-WS JMS EJB3 Oracle BDD

PHP Monitoring Portal

2007 – 2008

Motorola

Internal real-time device monitoring portal with a multi-threaded socket engine for live data ingestion.

PHP Multi-threaded Sockets Bash Perl Linux

Education

BSc Electronic Engineering & Computer Science

Polytechnic of Turin, Italy

2003 – 2008

Vocational Qualification, Web Development & Site Administration

CSEA Turin

2006 – 2007

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Learning the OWASP Top 10

Languages

Italian

Native / Bilingual

English

Full Professional

Independent Ventures

Founder of PuglieseWeb LTD — independent software company building cloud-native SaaS products; hands-on across architecture, full-stack development and AWS deployment.

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