About

Mario Caropreso is an accomplished engineering manager with over 12 years of experience in building scalable distributed systems. He is currently working as an Enterprise Engineering Manager at Facebook, where he is responsible for building products that are used across all of Facebook's Datacenters and Enterprise Operations. Mario takes pride in creating products that customers love, and his technical expertise spans Java, Ruby, Distributed Systems, and microservices architecture. Mario has also managed teams at Amazon Video, Yammer (Microsoft), Skyscanner, and Intuit. He is a specialist in Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Scalability, Software design, REST, Reliability, and AWS. His programming skills include Ruby, Java, C#, Javascript, and PHP, and he is experienced in working with storage systems such as MySql, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Riak, and ElasticSearch. Apart from his current role at Facebook, Mario also works as a self-employed Project Manager and Software Developer. He has worked on several web applications, including a Course Management System, IDEAWeb, a web-based, collaborative, authoring tool for learning objects, Laborandi, an Italian job board and online magazine, a property search website, a time tracking application for consultants, and a curriculum management system. Mario's past experience includes an internship at NTT Data, where he worked on the company's Document Management System. He also co-founded InnovaHub, a social network for open innovation to connect innovators with companies. Mario holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Federico II' and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the same university. He also holds a Diploma di Maturità Classica from Genovesi, where he studied Latin, Greek, and Philosophy. Mario's tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, AWS, Ruby, Java, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, Cassandra, Elastic Search, and Microservices. He has relevant experience of 12.79 years and shares his thoughts on organizations and management on his blog.