Raffaele Russo

Software Engineer · Nice, France

I work on the backend systems behind airline pricing and availability at Amadeus — distributed systems, caching, and the performance problems that come with them.

On the side I co-founded a startup and lead its engineering.

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Experience

Amadeus Nice, France

Software Development Engineer

Oct 2025 – Present

  • Eliminated redundant external API checks with transaction-level memoization, cutting request time from 67s (over the 15s timeout) to 1.8s and raising the per-request ceiling from 10 to 100,000 pricing strategy rows.
  • Restructured upstream request batching, raising sustained throughput from 7 to 100 tps.
  • Designed a profile-based cache invalidation system for a new availability feature, hardened against timeouts and edge cases; owned the test plan and production triage, cutting operating costs by $80k/month across the first two customers.
  • Led on-call operations for airline pricing and caching systems, resolving production incidents and data replication defects across inventory tiers; cut response time 10%.
  • Analyzed Splunk production logs and eliminated redundant signals, reducing logging costs by 26%.
  • Rebuilt the invalidation pipeline around batching and exponential backoff, cutting a 1-hour workflow to 1 minute (60×) for critical airline operations.

Software Engineer (contractor)

Mar 2024 – Oct 2025

  • Designed and deployed a carbon-aware distributed system on Google Cloud, cutting an estimated 470 tons of CO2 annually.
  • Built a REST API to migrate a legacy system to Azure, demonstrated live to 150+ employees.

Stealth Startup Tallinn, Estonia

CTO and Co-founder

Nov 2025 – Present

  • Architected a serverless platform on AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Redis) with CDK, load-tested to 5,000+ concurrent users.
  • Selected for the Tehnopol Science and Business Park startup accelerator.

Image Processing Research Group Naples, Italy

Research Intern

Oct 2023 – Mar 2024

  • Investigated diffusion models for master’s thesis, focusing on adversarial defenses to protect artist styles against AI mimicry.

Education

MSc in Computer Engineering
University of Naples Federico II · 2021 – 2024 · 110/110 cum laude, special mention
BSc in Computer Engineering
University of Naples Federico II · 2018 – 2021 · 110/110 cum laude
Erasmus Exchange
Tampere University, Finland · Jan 2023 – Jun 2023
Publications
2× IEEE Big Data publications (2023, 2024) — European law classification & search engine

Skills & Tools

Languages
C++, Python, Java
Cloud & Infrastructure
OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Linux, AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, Cognito, Amplify), GCP, CDK
Observability & CI/CD
Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Git
Databases & Caching
SQL (Oracle), Couchbase, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis
Spoken Languages
Italian (native), English (fluent), French (B1)