Mauro Donadio is the founder and principal consultant of Bermola Consulting, a senior-led digital consultancy based in London. He founded Bermola in 2015 with a clear conviction: that established businesses deserve senior expertise on every engagement, not just at the pitch.
Through Bermola, Mauro has spent his career leading significant technology programmes at some of the UK's largest and most complex organisations. His work spans digital transformation, legacy modernisation, cloud migration, and enterprise software engineering. He operates at the most senior levels, working directly with CEOs, COOs and boards, and remains personally involved from strategy through to delivery.
His approach is grounded in diagnosis before prescription: every engagement begins with a clear, honest assessment of the current state, so that the strategy is built on reality rather than assumptions. He has applied this across financial services, retail, food and beverage, travel, healthcare, and media, working with organisations ranging from FTSE 100 companies to high-growth scale-ups.
Areas of expertise
- Digital transformation
- Leading end-to-end transformation programmes, from initial diagnosis through to execution, for organisations undergoing significant technological change.
- Enterprise software engineering
- Designing, building, and delivering enterprise-grade software at scale, with a focus on reliability, maintainability, and long-term value.
- Cloud architecture and migration
- Architecting cloud-native solutions and safely migrating legacy systems to modern infrastructure, with measurable cost and performance outcomes.
- Engineering leadership
- Mentoring engineering teams, establishing delivery practices, and bridging the gap between technical capability and business strategy.
- Legacy system modernisation
- Diagnosing technical debt and architectural constraints, then designing pragmatic modernisation paths that enable progress without disruption.
- Mobile and web application development
- Delivering production-grade web and mobile applications across React, React Native, Node.js, and cloud-native stacks.
Selected client work
Lloyds Banking Group
Led cloud migration and modernisation of legacy banking systems, saving £15 million per year in infrastructure costs.
KFC (UK)
Engineered and deployed a mission-critical self-service kiosk platform across 2,300+ devices and 928+ UK stores, processing hundreds of thousands of daily transactions.
Sainsbury's
Re-engineered the food-to-order e-commerce platform from a legacy monolith to microservices, accelerating order processing by 30% and reducing maintenance overhead by 40%.
NatWest (Rooster Money)
Led end-to-end engineering delivery of the Rooster Money financial education mobile app, supporting a 450% post-acquisition surge and practical money management tools for UK families.
TUI Group
Delivered technology consulting supporting digital operations at scale, including real-time processing of 60 million user events per second.
Roche (Hoffmann-La Roche)
Provided technology expertise supporting digital health and data initiatives for one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies.
Work with Bermola
Bermola engagements are senior-led: principal-level consultants stay accountable from strategy through delivery. If your organisation is navigating a technology challenge, whether that's modernising legacy systems, scaling digital operations, or building new capability, book a discovery call to discuss how we can help.