Samuele Zanca

Samuele Zanca

Senior Software Engineer

Location:

Work

Backspace

Lead Software Engineer

Nov 2021 - Present

The Social Community Platform Prioritizing Creator and Fan Connections

Brkfst.io

Senior FullStack Engineer

Aug 2021 - Present

Brkfst.io solves video ads at scale, syndicated across social platforms

Express-Scripts

FullStack Engineer - Contractor

Apr 2021 - Aug 2021

ESI is a [Signa](https://www.cigna.com/) company that handles drug subscriptions

  • Maintained a React application used by an internal operations team.
  • Introduced Unit Testing, improving development workflow.
  • Spearheaded the development of the new React application using updated standards with focus on Testing, integrating with other teams developing APIs

DecHit

FullStack Engineer - Contractor

Jan 2021 - Apr 2021
  • Instructor for DecHit React Academy. Held a few crash courses. Performed Code Reviews. Getting them up to speed with Nodejs, React & Redux in 1 month
  • Lead a Team of 4 developers using the MERN stack to develop a microservice based application.
  • Implemented CI/CD Pipelines using Gitlab, Jenkins, Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Maintained and improved an Angular2+ application, reducing code complexity and duplication, resulting in faster development and easier integration with the Java Backend team
  • Maintained a Legacy React Cordova app while introducing best practices to facilitate a transition to React Native.

Mia-Platform

FullStack Engineer - Contractor

Jul 2020 - Oct 2020

Software agency trying to bring their clients into using Cloud Native software

  • Worked on a cross-functional team, to develop APIs and web UI dashboards for a B2B client Foorban Srl.
  • Developed a microservice in Kotlin using the Ktor framework, Jackson and Retrofit2 following the BFF and Saga patterns.
  • Developed two React dashboards using data from the previously mentioned kotlin API and Mia's CMS.
  • Developed a PDF Microservice that allows the use of HTML as a familiar DSL for creating Shipping labels, receipts and custom size invoices.
  • Prototyped a React app for live previewing of the PDFs using the Monaco-Editor.

TXT e-Solutions

Software Engineer

Sep 2019 - Jul 2020

TXT is a software agency in the field of Aerospace & Defence

  • Acted as a point of reference/mentor for developers learning: Node, React, Redux & Typescript.
  • Reduced bugs by 15% by adopting Typescript and helping coworkers get up to speed.
  • Lead the development of a React/Typescript web control panel for operating Flight Simulators via remotely via tablet for Leonardo SpA
  • Maintained c# two Xamarin Mobile apps used by ITT Inc in Automotive industry for collecting diagnostic break data transfered over wifi and low power bluetooth
  • Developed a c# app for collecting and processing flight data to reduce fuel costs in collaboration with IATA.
  • Developed a c# WPF Simulator for training the proper use of the ADRIAN system.

Skills

Frontend

HTML CSS Javascript Typescript React Nodejs Svelte React Native Redux Gatsby TailwindCSS

Backend

C# Nodejs Java Kotlin C++ Express NestJS Nextjs MongoDB Firebase Postgresql SQL REST gRPC Protobuf Docker Linux Azure GCP

Languages

English

Native speaker

Italian

Native speaker