Caterina leads the engineering team in Cloudian Milan developing competitive solutions for file technologies. In 1998 Caterina founded Infinity Storage srl, an Italian company pioneering software-defined storage that developed an innovative solution to manage different types of storage such as optical solutions, NAS, CAS, tape libraries, and object storage, giving transparent access at a front-end level to applications via CIFS and NFS. In 2017 Infinity Storage was acquired by Cloudian. Caterina worked as a senior software engineer for six years at Italtel, the largest Italian telecommunications company, followed by 12 years as CTO at IAN srl, where she invented the first WORM file system integrated into Unix, followed by the first single volume file system for optical libraries. Caterina graduated from Politecnico di Milano in electronic engineering.