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Work Experience

• Senior Software Engineer, Zapnito

  Jun, 2019 - Present

  Worked as a senior software engineer on the whole stack, focusing my efforts first on the front-end and then on the infrastructure.

  • Streamlined customer onboarding process by migrating a big part of the infrastructure to Terraform

  • Integrated Algolia to help us improve the platform search experience

  • Implemented a private direct messaging platform with Twilio and Ember.js

  • Made sure that our Ember + Rails stack was up to date

  • Led the team effort in rewriting our internal authoring tools in Ember.js

  • Migrated the whole codebase to Typescript

  • Automated our deployment workflow in Slack

  • Unified development stacks with VSCode Devcontainers and Docker

  • Introduced review apps to help us QA our PRs faster

• Director, Caldera Labs

  Sep, 2015 - Jun, 20193 years 9 months

  Founded Caldera Labs, a company that focuses on Ember, Rails, and Elixir consulting in London.

  • Featurist - Worked on new features, improvements and refactors for an app written with hyperdom.js

  • DVELP - Worked on a website for a gym in central London built with Rails and Vue.js

  • GlobalWebIndex - Worked on internal reports and graphs built with D3.js

  • The Trainline - Worked on architecturing and implementing a new JSON API in Ruby that allowed every service in the company to communicate using a common protocol.

  • Kayako - Worked on a major rebuild of the product in Ember.js.

  • Zapnito - Worked on the main application built with Ruby on Rails and Ember.js.

• Product Lead, AlphaSights

  Oct, 2013 - Sep, 20151 year 11 months

  Worked as a full-stack developer and product lead on the main application which is built with Ruby on Rails.

  • Shipped a major reimplementation of the main internal product using Ember.js

  • Contributed to the development of our internal front-end framework built with SASS and enhanced by our Ember components library.

  • Implemented a new way to get to know and better serve all our internal users leveraging Intercom.

  • Introduced a new type of process based on weekly releases with an updated changelog for our main product.

  • Changed the way we communicate as a global team with the help of Discourse.

• Freelance Web Developer, Self-Employed

  Jul, 2013 - Oct, 20133 months

  Worked on some side projects in Ruby on Rails.

• CTO & Co-founder, Responsa

  Nov, 2011 - Jul, 20131 year 8 months

  Co-founder of Responsa, a startup that offer an embeddable Q&A widget developed with Ruby on Rails, with the role of lead web developer and CTO. Responsa was a company growing in H-Farm, a startup incubator in northern Italy.

  • Led a team of 4 engineers delivering a front-end heavy product built with Backbone.js which was sold to multiple clients.

  • Successfully migrated away from Heroku by using Capistrano and Digitalocean

• Co-founder, Lucido

  Apr, 2011 - Nov, 20117 months

  Worked at Lucido on the creation of Playround, a platform for gamers in Ruby on Rails. Collaborated to the development of the iPad game ColorManiac and of the iPhone application Manistone.

  • Ruby on Rails

  • iOS Development

• Physicist, IFAE

  May, 2010 - Aug, 20111 year 3 months

  Worked at the High Energy Physics Institute (IFAE) in Barcelona (Spain) dealing with the caracterization of specific hardware for astronomic observations. Development in ROOT environment (C++ language).

  • Learned C++

  • Data analysis performed with Root

Projects Experience

• Focaccia

  Oct, 2021 - Present

  An app that lets you keep track of baking recipes and calculates baker's percentages.

  • Next.js

  • Nest.js

  • GraphQL API automatically mapped to Typescript client via the use of a code generation tool.

• Ariko

  Apr, 2021 - Present

  An embedded software for Arduino that interfaces with a Certabo Chess board and various components like a LCD display and buttons.

  • Rust

  • Embedded HAL

• Best Before

  May, 2018 - Present

  An iOS app that helps you keep track of expiring things in your fridge.

  • Swift

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