About me

On a personal note

I'm originally from Torino in Italy, I moved to the Netherlands for my university studies in 2015, and I haven't left since. After my bachelor's degree in Utrecht, I settled in Amsterdam.

In my free time, you can find me cooking or playing board games (check out my collection!).

Me with my old bicycle

Career

I have a strong interest in producing web apps with a focus on UX/UI design, without sacrificing performance.

Fun fact: while I'm a full stack engineer by trade, I studied economics first.

  • Amsterdam, NL

    Full stack engineer

    • Designed and architected product features in a web app built with React and FastAPI and deployed with Kubernetes on Google Cloud
    • Integrated backend application with the company's microservices architecture
    • Onboarded new hires and mentored more junior engineers
    • Introduced feature flags in the company
    • Reduced wall time of frontend monorepo CI build by 20minutes with Nx, improving development velocity and reducing costs
    • Established E2E testing infrastructure and Datadog monitoring for comprehensive performance and reliability analysis
    • Authored a Rust library to write Polars DataFrames to Excel, achieving a 5x speed up compared to the built-in Excel export and removing export limitations for users

    Technology

    • Python
    • FastAPI
    • TypeScript
    • React
    • PostgreSQL
    • Docker
    • GitHub
    • CircleCI
    • Google Cloud
  • Amsterdam, NL

    Full stack engineer

    • Developed and maintained a suite of Web Components for the organization's design system
    • Set up CI/CD pipeline for the review of Web Components in Storybook with temporary environments created on merge requests
    • Worked on the complete rewrite and redesign of RIPE Labs
    • Migrated legacy Pyramid applications to Django, increasing maintainability and performance

    Technology

    • Python
    • Django
    • PostgreSQL
    • TypeScript
    • Svelte
    • Storybook
    • Tailwind CSS
    • GitLab
  • Haarlem, NL

    Full stack engineer

    I was hired at Steward Redqueen as a data science intern, but soon transitioned to a web developer role, as we started building web applications and dashboards as frontends to our economic models.

    I learned a lot as I was the only in-house developer at the time so I couldn't delegate and I had to solve all issues on my own.

    • Developed economic models to calculate several impact measures, based on the research of senior colleagues
    • Built multiple React web applications with reusable components and interactive visualizations as a frontend to the model, accessible through a REST API built with Flask
    • Greatly improved offline behavior and performance by storing data in IndexedDB, instead of memory, as security requirements did not allow database storage server side
    • Containerized the applications for easier deployments

    Technology

    • React
    • TypeScript
    • D3.js
    • Python
    • Flask
    • pandas
    • Docker
    • GitLab

Education

  • Utrecht, NL

    BSc Economics and Business Economics

    • Graduated cum laude from the honors program with a thesis on “The Effect of Performance on NBA Playerʼs Salaries”
    • Went on exchange at the University of Western Australia, and took computer science classes for the first time “Problem Solving & Programming” and “Systems Programming”

    Technology

    • Python
    • pandas
    • C
    • R

Languages

  • Italian: Native
  • English: Fluent
  • Spanish: Conversational

Skills

Frontend

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • D3.js
  • Jest
  • Webpack
  • CSS3
  • Tailwind CSS

Backend

  • Python
  • Django
  • FastAPI
  • Go
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis

DevOps

  • Docker
  • GitLab
  • GitHub
  • CircleCI
  • Linux

Other

  • GNU Bash
  • Git
  • macOS