Filippo Sallemi

AI Solution Architect · iGaming & Affiliates

Summary

AI Solution Architect with 15+ years across iGaming and Affiliates, currently driving the agentic transformation of a NASDAQ-listed iGaming group. Hands-on practitioner of the modern AI stack — Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini, custom MCP servers, agent skills, prompt engineering, and autonomous multi-agent systems — translated into production platforms that give every engineer governed access to AI. Proven across cloud cost optimization (19% AWS reduction), CI/CD acceleration (days → hours via Fargate/ECS), zero-downtime legacy rebuilds, and scaling engineering orgs from startup to 10+. Certified Scrum Master with a founder's mindset and a deep technical bench across PHP/Laravel, Go, Python, and AWS.

Experience

Gambling.com Group

01/2025 - Present

Technical Architect

  • AI Strategy & Governance: Appointed to an elite leadership task force driving the company's transition toward an Agentic-Centric organizational structure.
  • Enterprise AI Knowledge Platform: Built a centralized, AI-queryable knowledge layer that unifies organizational memory across teams — eliminating context loss and accelerating decision-making.
  • Agentic AI Workspace: Delivered a secure, SSO-gated AI runtime giving every engineer governed access to autonomous agents — natively wired to the knowledge platform so every agent operates with full organizational context.
  • 19% infrastructure cost reduction through strategic FinOps and cloud workload optimization in the first year.
  • Delivery Acceleration: Reduced environment provisioning from days to hours by architecting automated pipelines using AWS Fargate/ECS.
  • Established org-wide architectural standards, IaC (Terraform) adoption, and CI/CD best practices across all engineering teams.
  • AI Evangelism: Delivered internal technical talks on AI and MCP servers, training engineering teams across the organization on agentic patterns and tooling.

Gambling.com Group

05/2022 - 01/2025

Development Leader

  • Built and managed a cross-functional team of 6 (devs + QA); defined quarterly OKRs and delivery roadmaps aligned with business goals.
  • Platform Modernisation: Led the full upgrade of the company's core software, reducing codebase by 2/3 — delivered on schedule with zero downtime.
  • Drove cross-team technical solutions and collaborated with DevOps on performance tuning and infrastructure improvements.

Videoslots

01/2021 - 05/2022

Senior Full Stack Developer

  • Resolved a critical technical impasse that had stalled ADM/AAMS certification for nearly a year, securing the Italian license within 3 months through a ruthless audit and refactoring of compliance protocols.
  • Optimised high-volume transactional backend in PHP/Laravel handling massive real-time gaming traffic with focus on data integrity and security.

The Ear Limited

03/2017 - 05/2020

Head of Development

iGaming Startup

  • Scaled engineering org from early-stage to 10+ members; reported to CTO; co-defined technical roadmap and organizational structure.
  • Casino Aggregator from zero: Integrated 40+ third-party game providers with sub-second latency and high availability under massive transactional load.
  • Spearheaded the successful migration of a legacy 'spaghetti-code' platform into a modern, scalable architecture within a few months. Managed the full transition of technical debt into a high-performance system while maintaining service continuity.
  • Managed multi-jurisdiction compliance (MGA, UKGC, Italy, Colombia) — 100% regulatory alignment across all markets.

Nomad NT

01/2011 - 12/2017

Founder & CEO

  • Founded and ran a technology company for 7 years — full P&L ownership, client acquisition, and end-to-end technical delivery for government and private-sector clients.
  • Delivered Laravel web platforms, Linux infrastructure, network security systems, and embedded automation projects (maritime/yachts).

Voismart SRL

01/2007 - 12/2010

Tech Lead

  • Led a team of 6 developers building the web UI for a VoIP/PBX product; worked extensively with Asterisk, SIP protocol and advanced networking.

Private Projects

AI-Enhanced iGaming Aggregator

Designed and built a full casino aggregator using a microservices architecture, complete with a back-office platform enriched with AI capabilities. Integrated a custom MCP server to connect the aggregator's data layer to LLMs — enabling natural-language querying of GGR reports, automated risk management, and autonomous business intelligence without manual SQL overhead.

MCP Server
LLMs
Agentic AI
Natural Language Querying
RAG
PHP/Laravel
Redis
MySQL
PostgreSQL

Crypto Payment Gateway

Built a self-hosted Monero payment infrastructure using a local full node — implemented subaddress-based wallet management for per-transaction isolation, real-time payment verification via Monero RPC, and full transaction lifecycle handling with no third-party payment provider.

PHP/Laravel
Go
Python
PostgreSQL

Education

Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

01/2001 - 01/2004
Milan, Italy

BSc Computer Science

I.T.I.S.

01/1995 - 01/2000
Ragusa, Italy

Qualification Electronic Engineering

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