Walter Danilo Galante

Tech Leader • Engineering Manager • Software Architect

Engineering leader focused on scalable systems, high-performing teams, and pragmatic Domain-Driven Design.

Via Avigliana 42, 10138, Torino (TO)

Experience

Hostaway — Staff Engineer

March 2025 – Present

Joined the team as Staff Engineer, in charge of scaling up and maintaining the premium-level integrations with Airbnb, Booking, Vrbo, Marriott and Google Vacation Rentals.

  • Single-handedly led and implemented parts of an initiative to refresh the authentication system, introducing a login auditing system to secure customers.
  • Introduced a 0-code service to handle Partner webhooks using the Inbox Pattern, relying on AWS cloud components. Achieved throughput of 40k RPM with 0% error rate and <1s latency upon first release.

Vibeslist — Staff Engineer

January 2025 – March 2025

Briefly joined a friend's young team of 3 engineers, to launch the company's prototype to a globally available AI product.

  • Refactored Next.js navigation, queries on Supabase and Vercel deployment, to lower first contentful paint across the globe from >1500ms to ~500ms on average.

Gorgias — Engineering Manager

March 2021 – December 2024

Successfully grew and led the Integrations domain, with over 20 people, splitting it into Channels, Ecommerce, and Phone to improve delivery speed, team cohesion and business impact.

  • Phone: Transformed the product from a $500k/year loss to a $3M ARR product by restructuring its infrastructure and team dynamics.
  • Channels: Scaled integrations for 16k+ merchants, implementing ETL microservices improving integration stability and scalability by 5x (measured on latency over traffic).
  • Ecommerce: Expanded team maintaining Shopify integration (>$60M ARR), guiding migration to a Kafka-based pipeline. Built platform to enable AI Agents to execute e-commerce actions autonomously.

Spear-headed the company's adoption of Domain Driven Design practices. Led a cross-functional task force with external consultant to map domains and improve team boundaries.

Oval Money — Lead Engineer

October 2017 – March 2021

Early joiner helping grow the company from a small team to multiple teams across locations. Designed the architecture and implemented the money movement system, led developer work and culture, and managed platform releases and maintenance.

ProxToMe — Lead Engineer

March 2014 – September 2017

Developed the initial consumer app, designed and implemented an IoT platform licensed to enterprise partners, won industry awards, and built the development team.

WimLabs — Software Engineer

October 2013 – March 2014

Extended a streaming platform with mobile apps and wrote integration plugins for CMS websites (WordPress, Joomla, Drupal).

Axant — Junior Software Engineer

August 2012 – December 2013

Worked on web and mobile applications as a junior developer, adopting Agile methodologies and software design patterns.