Portrait of Daniele Garbagnati

I build things.

Self-service platforms that turn weeks into minutes for enterprise teams. Patented production software for an artisan lab. A floral e-commerce in Milan, run end to end on a small budget. I'm a senior consultant with a platform engineering focus and an entrepreneurial mindset.

Today I consult on platform engineering at Lean Tree, for a global luxury fashion e-commerce. I built a self-service API integration layer that cut integration time from two weeks to minutes, rolled out Claude Code as a governed developer tool, and built the internal developer portal. Most of my focus now is making agents and LLM-assisted engineers safe to rely on: code that explains itself, tools that let them discover live state instead of trusting what they remember, and invariants that refuse the wrong change early, with an error that tells them how to fix it.

Since 2021 I've also been the technical co-founder of Miriam in Fiore, a premium floral e-commerce in Milan with online ordering and same-day delivery. I own the whole technical side, from architecture and security to UX, and recently rewrote every service in Rust so each one runs on as little as possible. Agents have made code cheap while compute stays scarce, so more and more I build small tools that do exactly what's needed. My latest experiment is an infrastructure platform in Rust.

Before that I was a software engineer at TrueLayer, an open banking fintech, delivering new payment and data integrations. At Hewlett Packard Enterprise, over almost five years, I went from banking contact center apps serving 200k+ daily users, to designing and building an IoT and AI analytics platform from lab setup to MVP, to SSO, auth and micro-frontends for a European Commission cloud security project. As a Solutions Architect I then automated cloud governance across 250+ AWS accounts for a global e-commerce and a European media company, cutting project bootstrap from 2+ weeks to 1 hour.

Before tech, I spent six years running operations at Garbagnati, my family's food retail and artisan production business in Milan. We grew from 5 to 12 people and quadrupled annual revenue by introducing new product lines and investing in R&D on raw materials and processing techniques. Along the way I designed, developed and patented production traceability software, integrated with store and sales management.