Sicilian · based in Warsaw
Roberto Pillitteri
Software Engineer III · Site Reliability Engineering at Google
I keep large-scale distributed systems reliable by day, and write low-level systems software for the love of it.
// about
A polymath who refuses to stop digging.
I fell in love with programming at 13, and that early obsession with how machines work at the lowest level never left me. I write C from first principles, for the joy of understanding things end to end.
I hold a master's in Computer Engineering from the University of Catania and have over five years in the field. I worked as a Tech Lead and Architect, earning 12+ certifications including Application Architect and System Architect, before moving into Site Reliability Engineering at Google.
I care about performance and about code that is both correct and elegant. I also focus heavily on AI, and I'll soon be starting a PhD in it. I have a polymath streak and a healthy backlog of side projects.
- years in the field
- 5+
- certifications
- 12+
- from first principles
- C11
- in AI · incoming
- PhD
- Application Architect
- System Architect
- SRE · Google
- 1Distributed systemsplanet-scale data platforms
- 2Services & automationarchitecture, DevOps, AI agents
- 3Runtimes & operating systemswhere the abstractions start leaking
- 4C11, from first principleszero dependencies, every byte accounted for
- 5The metalSIMD, caches, hot loops
// featured projects
Built to understand, not just to ship.
Most of these ship under Alienlabs, my AI-focused software venture.
gemma3.c 100+ ★
A complete inference engine for Google's Gemma 3, written in pure C11 with zero external dependencies. A from-scratch implementation of modern LLM inference, built to understand transformers down to the metal.
github.com/robitec97 ↗localBots
AI teammates for iPhone that run entirely on the device. Coming to the App Store.
localbots.vercel.app ↗scay
A small coding agent that lives in the terminal.
github.com/robitec97 ↗BoogChess
A UCI chess engine written in Go.
github.com/robitec97 ↗LightCosmosRat
A project from my student days: a Remote Administration Tool for Windows written in C#, undetectable at the time.
github.com/robitec97 ↗// experience
The path that led to here.
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Next burn
PhD in AI
incoming
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In orbit · now
Google
Software Engineer III · SRE
Apr 2026 – presentWarsaw
Keeping a planet-scale managed data platform reliable. Capacity, performance, and the boring-on-purpose mechanics that make customer outages a non-event.
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Stage 2
BIP
Tech Lead · Senior Consultant
Jul 2024 – Apr 2026Enterprise
AI agents, enterprise architecture, DevOps, and leading large projects and complex automation for enterprise clients.
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Stage 1
Skylabs
Software Engineer → Tech Lead
Nov 2021 – Jun 2024Multi-stack
Started as a Software Engineer and was quickly promoted to Tech Lead. Multi-stack projects and early AI adoption.
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Launch
Catania, Sicily
MSc Computer Engineering · University of Catania
First program at 13. The obsession with how machines work at the lowest level started here.
// beyond code
When I'm away from a terminal.
$ echo "the Toy Story aliens are, scientifically, the best characters in cinema." >> opinions.log
$ ./say-hello
Open a socket.
Want to talk distributed systems, C, or AI?
I'm always up for a conversation about reliability, compilers, the right way to write a hot loop, or whether the Toy Story aliens deserve their own film.