In a previous life, Marco used to be CTO, radiation physicist, software architect, sysadmin, DBA, trainer and general handyman at Italy's largest radiation theraphy practice. Having switched career and country, he spent the best part of two decades in various support and development positions in Informix first and IBM later, before finally taking the plunge and joining Couchbase, to help them make gold out of N1QL. He holds several patents and has authored open source projects of his own.