Hi, I'm Paolo.
I’ve spent most of my career writing code, scaling systems, and growing teams. I worked in research, startups, and large companies like Amazon.
Along the way, I’ve managed projects, fleets of servers, people, and processes. I’ve learned that clarity, alignment, and healthy team dynamics matter far more than any tech stack.
I’ve never managed to keep life in tidy boxes. Work blends into family, and family into everything else. The borders don’t hold, and the overlaps are the most interesting bits.
Unicorns and uniforms
My day-to-day is to lead Product Compliance at Satispay, helping teams make better decisions at the intersection of product, tech, and regulation.
On the side, I’m an officer in the Italian Navy Reserve. That keeps me grounded in discipline, service, and the kind of leadership that’s less about noise and more about ownership. It’s a different world, but not an unrelated one.
Family is my reality check
At home, I’m a parent of three. Family makes sure that theory doesn’t stay theoretical for long.
Parenting is its own kind of systems thinking. It teaches you to optimize routines and manage crises. The best-laid plans crumble when someone’s hungry, tired, or frustrated. It calls for calm when no one else has it, decisions made with incomplete information, and patience you didn’t know you had.
Restlessly curious
Outside those roles, I’m always chasing new perspectives. In no specific order, I play guitar (not very well, not very badly), fly airplanes, sail, and hike mountains. I also write music, SCUBA dive, snowboard, shoot, cook, tinker with radios and odd electronics, read, write, explore, and more.
Some experiments stick, some don’t, but all of them feed the same impulse: to experience the world as a network of patterns and mechanisms that are complex, wonderful, and often surprising. The mountains teach patience and respect for forces bigger than yourself. The ocean teaches humility and the art of working with, not against, natural systems.
This website
This site is my public notebook, my home on the web. It’s where I write about what crosses my mind. It can be the contradictions of humans, the ways I approach problems, or the perspectives that shift my point of view. It’s also where I keep track of the projects I’m working on and the ideas that keep me busy. If you want to know me, this is the place to start.
Let’s Connect
If you’ve read this far, chances are you share some of my curiosity. If so, you’re welcome to read along and to reach out.
You can reach me at me@paolog.net or find me on LinkedIn, and if you’d like to get updates when I publish new posts, you can subscribe to my newsletter: