Filippo Sallemi
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
- 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.
- Led a team of six direct reports across engineering and QA, with responsibility for one-to-ones, performance reviews and individual development plans.
- Conducted technical interviews and contributed to hiring decisions.
- Developed engineers through actionable feedback and increasing ownership of technical decisions and delivery, aligning team priorities with product goals.
- Enabled the team to deploy independently to production through pairing, documentation and gradual delegation.
- Led a major platform upgrade while maintaining feature delivery, coordinating technical decisions, engineering practices and dependencies with other teams.
- 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.
iGaming Startup
- Built and led a multidisciplinary team of ten across development, QA and design, with two team leads coordinating day-to-day work.
- Ran one-to-ones and performance reviews, contributed to hiring decisions, helped shape the technical roadmap and translated CTO priorities into work for the teams.
- Led delivery of a new back office and casino aggregation platform integrating third-party game providers, with a focus on performance and availability; both were released to production and used in practice.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Developed the user interface for the company's VoIP/PBX product and subsequently coordinated the technical work of two other PHP developers. Worked on the Fax over IP (FoIP) user interface and Orchestra.
- Developed PHP-based websites and web applications for public- and private-sector clients.
Education
Technical Skills
Key Projects
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.
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
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