Giuseppe Acuto

Innovation & AI Adoption practice · Italy

• •Lead the Innovation & AI Adoption practice — own hiring, performance reviews and the growth of a small engineering team.
• •Act as solution architect across concurrent client engagements — currently a custom optimisation platform for a Swiss energy-sector startup, partnering with the founders on technical direction and product strategy.
• •Run discovery workshops that turn open-ended business goals into scoped, buildable architecture.
• •Lead presales: shape proposals, estimate effort and present technical solutions to prospective clients.

Stack Java · Spring · React · TypeScript · Python · multi-container Docker · GitLab CI · REST APIs · microservices · Claude Code & Cursor

• •Selected advisory work for early-stage teams on AI adoption, agentic systems and software architecture.

France, Switzerland & Germany (remote) · Senior Software Engineer 2018–2022, Lead 2022–2023

• •Led cross-functional, distributed engineering teams delivering enterprise transformation programmes for insurance, telecommunications and public-sector clients.
• •Owned solution architecture and technical delivery across multiple concurrent programmes — from architecture runway through hands-on implementation and release.
• •First engineer in Europe accredited to deliver the platform vendor's official certification training; designed and ran programmes for client and internal teams.
• •Supported presales and RFP responses with architectural guidance to prospective clients.

Stack Java · Python · TypeScript / JavaScript · Node.js · REST & SOAP APIs · Docker · Jenkins · microservices

Nice, France

• •Led a team of eight across a client programme (Amadeus), an R&D initiative and internal projects.
• •Built core services in Python and C++ for Amadeus's B2B travel-distribution platform.
• •Worked as a servant leader — removing blockers and keeping delivery moving.

Stack Python · C++ · Flask · JavaScript · SQL · MongoDB · REST & SOAP · Jenkins · GitLab

Artificial Intelligence & Computer Security · Palermo, Italy

• •Worked on EU- and nationally-funded research in machine learning and deep learning (TensorFlow, Theano), applied to IoT and computer vision.
• •Developed computer-security algorithms and explored early blockchain systems.

The Rise of Agentic Workflows

On designing staged, looping AI systems that do real work.

Least Privilege

On security and access boundaries for AI agents handling sensitive data.

Questions I'm Sitting With About AI

Honest open problems in applied AI — what works, and what doesn't yet.