Nico Caprioli

I’m a staff-level software engineer focused on distributed systems and secure-by-default architectures. I drive end-to-end delivery of complex services, set engineering standards adopted across teams, and support developers through pairing and collaborative decision-making.

At Zucchetti, I designed and delivered secure, scalable microservices in PHP and Node.js, leading the WhatsApp microservice from requirements and architecture through release coordination. I implemented multi-tenant isolation and envelope encryption, applied TDD/clean architecture, managed system-wide incidents with rollback/service isolation, and produced ISO-compliant incident reports.

I also strengthen developer safety and delivery speed through practical platform changes: I introduced distroless containers and other secure-by-default practices (including Pulsar and Cucumber) and enforced PSR-12 standards. Alongside DevOps, I improved security posture and reliability by eliminating SQL injection risk via multibinding in the internal ORM, tuning monitoring and performance, and migrating ElasticSearch clusters to ARM-based AWS instances with zero downtime.

I bring the same system thinking beyond my main stack, building a geospatial microservice with Apache Sedona and PySpark for low-latency, high-reliability spatial queries on large datasets. I’m equally comfortable mentoring and collaborating on high-complexity production issues, and I enjoy translating requirements into clear technical documentation, including ER diagrams, sequence diagrams, cloud architecture diagrams, and OpenAPI specifications.