Filippo Sallemi

Technical Architect · Engineering & AI Leadership

Technical Architect with experience as a Head of Development and Lead Developer, combining engineering leadership with hands-on expertise in AI architecture, systems integration and cloud platforms. My approach is to give teams clear technical direction, develop their judgement and distribute knowledge and responsibility so they can work autonomously. My technical experience includes AI agents, workflow automation, persistent memory, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations. I have worked across iGaming and affiliate businesses, with a focus on practical outcomes, reliable systems and sustainable operating costs.

Professional Experience

Technical Solutions Architect
Grandstand (formerly Gambling.com Group)
Jan 2025 - PresentMalta
  • AI Strategy & Adoption: Selected to contribute to a cross-functional leadership initiative shaping how agentic AI is introduced across software engineering, translating research into practical standards, tooling, and adoption patterns.
  • Enterprise AI Platform: Conceived Memento, an AI memory platform, and led its initial technical development, coordinating its continued rollout across development, infrastructure, testing and onboarding.
  • Engineering Enablement: Helped engineering teams adopt AI through practical guidance, reusable MCP integrations, shared development patterns and technical knowledge sharing.
  • Designed and built reusable MCP tooling and integrations, simplifying authentication and enabling developers to connect AI capabilities with existing tools and systems.
  • Contributed to cloud cost optimisation through FinOps analysis and workload improvements.
  • Delivery Acceleration: Improved environment provisioning by architecting automated cloud deployment pipelines using AWS Fargate/ECS.
  • Contributed to architectural standards, Infrastructure as Code adoption with Terraform, and CI/CD practices across engineering teams.
Lead Developer
Gambling.com Group
Jul 2022 - Jan 2025Malta
  • Led a development team spanning engineering and QA, combining people management and delivery responsibility with hands-on technical leadership.
  • Developed engineers through regular one-to-ones, individual development plans, actionable feedback and increasing ownership of technical decisions and delivery.
  • Aligned team priorities and delivery plans with product goals, balancing business commitments, technical quality and opportunities for engineers to grow.
  • Led a major platform upgrade while maintaining feature delivery, coordinating technical decisions, engineering practices and dependencies with other teams.
Senior Software Developer
Gambling.com Group
Nov 2021 - Aug 2022Malta
Senior Backend Developer
Videoslots
Oct 2020 - Nov 2021Malta
  • Contributed to the integration of the Italian ADM protocol, helping resolve an implementation that had stalled. Managed the technical work during the certification session, supporting its successful completion.
Head of Development
The Ear Limited
Mar 2019 - Oct 2020Malta

iGaming Startup

  • Built and developed the engineering team of an iGaming startup, reporting to the CTO and helping shape the technical roadmap and team structure.
  • Built a casino aggregation platform integrating third-party game providers, with a focus on performance and availability.
  • Led the migration of a legacy platform to a modern architecture, reducing technical debt while maintaining service continuity.
  • Led engineering work supporting multi-jurisdiction regulatory requirements across MGA, UKGC, Italy, and Colombia.
Senior PHP Programmer
The Ear Limited
Jan 2018 - Oct 2020Malta
  • Developed REST APIs and microservices with Lumen, alongside customer-facing websites built with Laravel. Managed and configured the supporting infrastructure, including servers, VPNs, DNS and firewalls.
Company Owner
Nomad NT
Jan 2010 - Nov 2021Ragusa, Italy
  • Delivered custom PHP and C++ applications and infrastructure solutions for public- and private-sector clients.
  • Supplied and configured servers, networks, security systems and building automation for public, private and superyacht projects.
Senior PHP Programmer
VoiSmart
Jan 2007 - Dec 2009Milan, Italy
  • Developed the user interface for the company's VoIP/PBX product and subsequently led the PHP development team. Worked on the Fax over IP (FoIP) user interface and Orchestra.
Company Owner
art-insite.org
Jan 2001 - Dec 2006Milan, Italy
  • Developed PHP-based websites and web applications for public- and private-sector clients.

Education

BSc in Computer Science
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Jan 2001 - Jan 2004
Qualification in Electronic Engineering
I.T.I.S.
Jan 1995 - Jan 2000

Technical Skills

Leadership & Delivery
Engineering LeadershipTeam ManagementTechnical StrategyStakeholder ManagementRoadmappingOKRsAgile Delivery
Architecture & AI
Distributed SystemsAgentic AILLMsRAGMCP ServersAI GovernanceCloud ArchitecturePlatform EngineeringVector EmbeddingsMulti-Agent Systems
Engineering
PHPLaravelPythonGoNode.jsJavaScriptVue.jsLivewire
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWSFargateECSLambdaDockerTerraformAnsibleGitHub ActionsCI/CDCloud FinOps
Data & Domains
MySQLPostgreSQLRedisElasticsearchiGamingAffiliate SystemsReal-time Processing

Key Projects

Memento — AI Memory & Context Platform (Grandstand)

Employer project at Grandstand. An AI memory and context platform that makes organisational knowledge more accessible across teams. Conceived the project, led its initial technical development and coordinated its rollout.

AI AgentsPersistent MemoryMCPRAGSemantic SearchAI Governance
pi-github-app-auth

Personal open-source project. Pi coding-agent extension that authenticates commands executed by the agent to GitHub as a GitHub App installation, keeping personal credentials untouched through short-lived, least-privilege tokens.

https://github.com/tonyputi/pi-github-app-auth

TypeScriptGitHub AppOctokitAgent Tooling
pi-lightpanda

Personal open-source project. Pi coding-agent extension that gives agents a lightweight headless browser via Lightpanda for fetching, scraping and web automation, without a full Chromium instance.

https://github.com/tonyputi/pi-lightpanda

TypeScriptLightpandaCDPWeb Automation

Certifications

Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
Scrum Alliance
2021-08-20
Coaching Skills for Leaders and Managers
LinkedIn Learning
2023-08
Managing High Performers
LinkedIn Learning
2023-08
Managing Organizational Change for Managers
LinkedIn Learning
2023-08

Languages

Italian — NativeEnglish — Professional
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