Massimo Presta

Head of Engineering

m@pulu.meSydney, Australiapulu.me LinkedIn GitHub

Head of Engineering at Ankor Software, leading engineering direction while building Banook — a local-first, privacy-focused context manager for AI agents. Previously scaled platform teams at Pearson and built APIs, websockets, and internal tooling at Smart Sparrow.

Experience

Head of Engineering · Ankor Software

2025–present

Leading engineering org and technical direction.

Full Stack Engineer · Ankor Software

2022–2025

Shipped reliable solutions with cutting-edge tech.

Principal Engineer · Pearson

2021–2022

Designed subsystems and drove backend architecture.

Senior Platform Engineer · Pearson

2020–2021

Scaled services and mentored the backend team.

Platform Engineer · Smart Sparrow

2017–2020

Built REST APIs, websockets, and internal tooling.

Web Developer · Pavilion Health

2015–2017

Led development on Angular and Java microservices.

Education

Academy of Information Technology · Bachelor's degree, Information Technology

2013–2016

Skills

TypeScriptJavaVue.jsNode.jsDatabasesCloudflareAWS