Emanuele Pugliese
Principal Cloud Architect & AI Consultant
Available for ConsultingProfessional 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, event taxonomy design, 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 progress2026 – Present
puglieseweb LTD
UK rental compliance platform connecting landlords with certified tradespeople for electrical safety certificates.
SystemDox
2026 – Present
puglieseweb LTD
B2B enterprise software-development documentation platform with AI-powered spec generation, planning, and quality analysis.
AI Documentation Platform
2026
puglieseweb LTD
AI-powered note-taking and document management app with real-time collaboration, streaming, and transcription.
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.
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.
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.
PHP Monitoring Portal
2007 – 2008
Motorola
Internal real-time device monitoring portal with a multi-threaded socket engine for live data ingestion.
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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