Michele B.-AI-Native Software Delivery | Co-creator of nWave | Creator, SW Craftsmanship Dojo®
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Experience
Tech Lead - DevOps Coach
ZF Transics
- Built the Internal Development Platform on AWS, migrating Terraform and Terragrunt to Pulumi; a Backstage developer portal cut onboarding from five days to two hours.
- The project was presented at Platform Conf 2025.
- Brought five previously siloed teams onto shared TDD and BDD practice through the Dojo.
DevOps Engineer
DukkanTek
Azure infrastructure as code (IaC) and continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, the cybersecurity posture for production deployment, and SRE-side monitoring.
Senior DevOps Engineer and Tech Lead
KTM
Migrated ktm.com's website, custom motorbikeconfigurator to Kubernetes across AWS and Azure, with GitOps through Adobe Experience Manager.
Led the Dojo's adoption inside the development organisation during the migration of ktm.com's content management system to Kubernetes.
DevOps Expert
Frost
- Coached the development team in TDD through the Dojo while delivering the entire IaC infrastructure and dev-side DevOps integration, the DevSecOps security posture, and the SRE monitoring and observability layer.
Scaled Agile & DevOps transformation lead
Coca-Cola Hellenic
- Coached leadership through a full transformational leadership programme to adopt SAFe: moved the leadership from waterfall to agile, and brought the development teams onto the Dojo's practices.
DevOps and Tech Lead
NS, Netherlands Railway
Built a community of practice and the Dojo; took ten teams to Elite on the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) model with one-click releases; drove AWS microservices and serverless adoption.
Migrated multiple teams to AWS and Azure reducing costs and time to deliver, with their own infrastructure as code and SRE practices to be self contained and multidisciplinary product teams.
Supported the AI-pilot providing nWave.ai as the new Agentic Software Development Life Cycle for the teams graduated into the SW Craftsmanship Dojo®.
Ran wellbeing and engagement programmes against measured burnout. The Dojo has run there continuously since, most recently a Q4 2025 belt cohort.
DevOps Lead, then Global DevOps Lead, then Tech Executive Advisor
IBM
- From 2019, worked with AI applied to software development as the first tools appeared (Tabnine, Sourcery, Kite), and put the approach on paper.
- Worked across IBM's AI and MLOps teams, holding technical authority on MLOps practice and coaching the managers who ran those teams.
- Created and ran the XPFarm dojo formula, fusing XP and DevOps technique with behavioural psychology and neuroscience, reaching more than 6,000 developers; took the IBM TechCon Award for the technical-excellence community of practice.
- Took more than 250 teams in IBM's Chief Information Officer (CIO) organisation to High or Elite performance.
- Launched the OKR programme with the IBM CIO, using DORA to gauge CIO performance, and took the IBM Coin for leading it; OKR Strategic Advisor from 2019.
- Redesigned the 35-year-old mainframe CIO Contract Handler System into a microservices architecture integrating with Aptus and enterprise resource planning systems; conceived and built the Common CI/CD platform and its developer portal with service discovery.
- Founded the largest eXtreme Programming community of practice in the organisation; alumni went on to Amazon Web Services, Google and Meta.
- Advised at CIO level, then coached the incoming Chief Technology Officer (CTO), reporting to him.
Founder
Brix Consulting
- Co-created nWave, a human-centred deterministic agentic-AI delivery framework, and direct the fleet of AI agents that run delivery on it. In pilot at NS, the Netherlands Railway.
- Built the SW Craftsmanship Dojo® from research begun in a Formula 1 environment; between 20,000 and 25,000 learners have come through the programme, fusing technical practice with behavioural psychology and neuroscience.
- Created Unicorns' Ecosystem™, an organisation operating system with a predictive model, and BOKaRy, behavioural-OKR governance built for boards.
- Engaged by engineering teams as their AI software engineering coach.
Chief Technology Officer and R&D Director, and Agile and DevOps coach
Movalia
- Began working with machine learning and AI here, on routing and on passenger behaviour analysis.
- Delivered an intelligent transportation system from scratch in under six months: cloud navigation and routing for buses and trucks, built on Lean UX and user-centred design.
- Led a cross-functional team of developers, engineers and designers.
- Coached the organisation in Agile and DevOps practice while holding CTO responsibility.
Technical Lead and Agile Coach
UniCredit
- Refactored a ten-year-old Java core banking asset for new EU regulation and made it the first bank asset delivered from the cloud.
- Led early experiments in digital signature technology for payments.
- Upskilled a team from support roles into craftspeople through a purpose-built Samman-method bootcamp, the direct ancestor of the Dojo's curriculum.
Tech Lead, then Development Lead
Engineering Ingegneria Informatica
- Led an experimental Agile and Scrum development team from 2002, within a year of the Agile Manifesto, for government, energy and banking clients.
Technical Lead and people manager
Tilab S.r.l.
- The first people-management role of the career.
System Architect and Technical Project Manager
Informatica Trentina S.p.A.
I built several mission critical systems, and surfed the wave of client server and web products.
Developer then Architect
Project Informatica
Worked in multiple industries from legal to automotive and fintech.
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Experienced in Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Professional Services, Automotive, Energy, and Government and Administration.
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Experienced in Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management, Research and Development, Business Intelligence, and Human Resources.
Summary
Thirty years in software delivery, the last eleven with machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). Applied ML in production from 2015, held technical authority on Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) practice at IBM, and worked with AI for software development from 2019. Co-creator of nWave, a deterministic agentic-AI delivery framework in pilot at a national rail operator, and creator of the behaviour-engineered SW Craftsmanship Dojo®.
Skills
- Ai-Assisted Software Delivery
- Machine Learning Operations (Mlops)
- Agentic Ai Systems
- Behavioural Engineering
- Extreme Programming (Xp)
- Test-Driven Development (Tdd)
- Behaviour-Driven Development (Bdd)
- Devops And Devsecops
- Site Reliability Engineering (Sre)
- Java
- Infrastructure As Code (Iac: Terraform, Pulumi)
- Amazon Web Services (Aws)
- Azure
- Kubernetes
- Objectives And Key Results (Okr)
- Lean Ux
- Technical Coaching
- Leadership And Executive Coaching
- Communities Of Practice
- Samman Method
- Devops Research And Assessment (Dora) Performance
- Scaled Agile Framework (Safe)
- Workshop And Curriculum Design
Languages
Education
Engineering University of Trento
Software Engineering
Certifications & licenses
Licensed Arbinger Outward Mindset Coach
Scrum Alliance
Scrum Alliance
Certified OKR Coach, Outcome Mindset Method™
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Michele is based in Bratislava, Slovakia and can operate in on-site, hybrid, and remote work models.
Michele speaks the following languages: Italian (Native), English (Advanced), Spanish (Advanced), German (Elementary), Slovak (Elementary).
Michele has at least 31 years of experience. During this time, Michele has worked in at least 14 different roles and for 14 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 2 months. Note that Michele may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Michele would be well-suited for roles such as: Tech Lead - DevOps Coach, DevOps Engineer, Senior DevOps Engineer and Tech Lead.
Michele's most recent position is Tech Lead - DevOps Coach at ZF Transics.
In recent years, Michele has worked for ZF Transics, DukkanTek, KTM, Frost, and Coca-Cola Hellenic.
Michele is most experienced in industries like Information Technology, Banking and Finance, and Professional Services. Michele also has some experience in Energy, Government and Administration, and Automotive.
Michele is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Product Development, and Project Management. Michele also has some experience in Research and Development, Business Intelligence, and Human Resources.
Michele has recently worked in industries like Information Technology, Professional Services, and Food and Beverage.
Michele has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Product Development, and Business Intelligence.
Michele attended Engineering University of Trento for Software Engineering.
Michele has 4 certificates. Among them, these include: Licensed Arbinger Outward Mindset Coach, Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO), and Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM).
Michele is immediately available part-time for suitable projects.
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