Curriculum vitae
Patrick Barattin
Founder of Weft Labs. I build the layer that lets AI agents reach data, software, and services through one integration.
Zurich, CH · p.barattin@gmail.com · nittarab.dev · GitHub
Experience
Founder · Weft Labs GmbH
Jan 2023 – Present
Zurich, Switzerland
- Co-founded Weft Labs and lead product and engineering for a platform that lets AI agents access external data, software, and services through one integration.
- Designed and shipped the end-to-end system for provider discovery, secure access, pay-per-use transactions, and spending controls.
Senior Software Engineer · On AG
Jan 2023 – May 2026
Zurich, Switzerland
- From August 2025, worked on the Conversational AI team, building an internal platform for conversational ecommerce and focusing on agent architecture, monitoring, and live evaluation.
- Supported business-critical checkout and payments work, including Adyen client upgrades, multi-account app releases, domain migration, and a BFCM hotfix that unblocked sales.
- Spent more than a year on the on-call rotation, leading over 15 incidents and improving distributed tracing with New Relic.
- Shipped a Low Stock in Key Variants MVP in two weeks. After handover it contributed to a 0.9% conversion-rate improvement.
- Led a Ruby upgrade, with YJIT and jemalloc, that cut average response time from 220ms to under 100ms, and started cleanup of 10M+ order records for SOX compliance.
- Delivered a Cloudflare Worker for Apple Pay domain validation that other teams later reused. Landed 130+ merged pull requests on the core ecommerce backend.
Senior Software Engineer · Atpoint SA
Oct 2021 – Dec 2022
Switzerland
- Led the migration of Finap from a customer-specific app to an engine that could serve many customers.
- Scaled the product from a single instance to more than 250 customers. The overhaul contributed to a 10x increase in company revenue.
Chief Technology Officer · Pix Group Italia S.r.l.
May 2018 – Sep 2021
Italy
- Led 5 engineers and product experts while digitizing personalized apparel, from paper orders and cash to more than 300 customized ecommerce communities on Solidus.
- Ran a Kubernetes cluster for the ecommerce platforms and a custom CRM, and automated the path from order capture to warehouse and print-on-demand.
- Managed more than 20,000 customized items per month in peak season. Grew company revenue from €500k to €2.5M.
Founder, Job'scool · Larin Group S.r.l.
2016 – 2018
Italy
- Built a Rails app for the paperwork required by mandatory high-school internships after new Italian legislation.
- Reached 20% of Italian high schools in 14 months and presented the project to the Minister of Education.
Software Developer · Mostaza S.r.l.
Summer 2015
Italy
- Contributed to web software projects during a summer role.
Technologies
- Ruby, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL, Hotwire, Stimulus
- Ruby on Rails, Next.js, Minitest, RSpec
- Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, CI/CD, Kamal, AWS, GCP
- Agent systems, evaluation pipelines, data validation, pay-per-use access
Education
BSc in Information and Business Organization Engineering, incomplete. University of Trento, Italy, 2016–2018. Student representative for the department.
Computer Science high-school diploma. I.T.I. G. Segato, Italy, 2011–2016.