About Me
Hi! I'm Valerio Criscimanna, a technology and business consultant based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. I have extensive fintech expertise and I am passionate about designing secure, innovative, user-centric tech solutions that drive efficiency, empower users, and advance financial inclusion.
In my spare time, instead of posting, liking, retweeting or going viral on TikTok, I keep busy travelling, reading geek stuff, hugging friends, going to concerts, eating delicious food, walking , reading books, sleeping, watching films, and speculating about the origin of the universe while drinking beer.
My Skills
Technology and Business Consulting
- Implementing AI solutions and shaping cloud strategies
- Translating business and regulatory needs into technical solutions
- Bridging business stakeholders and engineering teams
- Guiding teams from business case to delivery
Security & Compliance
- Design for high-security environments
- Applying fintech best practices for data protection and regulatory compliance (PCI DSS, SOC2, GDPR)
- Securing generative and agentic AI solutions with guardrails, data privacy and least-privilege access
Architecture Design
- Serverless architectures for scalability and cost efficiency
- Modular architectures for maintainable, evolvable systems
- Event-driven architectures for responsive, decoupled services
Data Engineering
- Design and implementation of ETL pipelines
- Data modelling for NoSQL and relational databases
- Data lake design to unify structured and unstructured data
DevOps & Automation
- Infrastructure as Code
- CI/CD pipeline setup and management
- Automation of operational tasks via scripting
- Setting up comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting
Integration & APIs
- Building and securing RESTful and WebSocket APIs
- Designing event-driven integration patterns
- Connecting AI agents to business systems through APIs and MCP servers
My Buzzwo Stack
- Cloud Platforms
- Amazon Web Services (AWS); Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Compute & Serverless
- AWS Lambda; GCP Cloud Functions; AWS EC2; AWS Step Functions; EventBridge; AWS SQS; AWS SES
- Storage & Data
- AWS S3; AWS Athena; DynamoDB; Aurora; RDS; GCP Firestore; GCP Realtime Database
- Data Processing
- AWS Glue; Apache Spark / PySpark
- Networking & Security
- VPC design; IAM (Identity & Access Management); AWS KMS; Encryption at rest & in transit
- IaC - CI/CD - Automation
- AWS SAM; AWS CloudFormation; Jenkins; Git; Bash
- API & Integration
- API Gateway (RESTful + WebSocket APIs)
- Monitoring & Observability
- CloudWatch; Grafana
- Languages / Scripting
- Python; Bash
Contact Me
Social Media are not my cup of tea, so you're not going to find me on the usual platforms. Having said that, I have set aside my pretensions and reluctantly embraced the necessary evil of
LinkedIn.
If instead you feel more old-fashioned, you can simply
- or have ChatGPT write it for you, let's be honest.