Samuel Ventimiglia

Seventeen years, four industries

Seventeen years of senior engineering work across crypto-native finance, healthcare, AI and agent infrastructure, and cloud-native systems. Forty-plus production systems shipped, four products carried from constrained beta to worldwide scale, and three data-breach incidents handled end-to-end — including regulator engagement and board reporting.

Currently CTO at Campsor Capital. Prior work spanned greenfield system design, hands-on build leadership, and compliance-aware architecture in regulated environments.

Day-to-day tooling

Languages

Go, Python, C++, Node.js, SQL

Data

SQL and NoSQL databases, vector databases (pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate), Apache Kafka

Infrastructure

Docker, Kubernetes, Nginx, NATS JetStream, Grafana

Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), DigitalOcean

AI tooling

Claude, LangChain, TensorFlow

Certifications

AWS, LangChain

Spoken

English, Italian

What keeps me curious

The work I would do if no-one was paying — and the things that pull me away from the keyboard.

• Agent identity standards
• Open-source contribution
• Crypto projects
• Playing the drums
• Climbing
• Skiing
• Harry Potter

How I work

Code lands

I commit code, own infrastructure, and take architectural decisions to closure. Strategy without implementation has never appealed to me.

Compliance is shipped, not bolted on

For regulated work, audit trails, data residency, and breach posture are designed in on day one — not added under regulator pressure. Three production breach engagements have validated the approach.

Straight answers

Engineering risk, technical debt, and roadmap trade-offs translated into business terms. Boards know what they are buying and what they are deferring.

cuko.uk

cuko.uk is my personal site. The domain belongs to Cuko Ltd, a UK company I own; it is not currently used for client work. Writing here is personal — opinions are my own and do not represent Campsor Capital.