Ugo
Tech Lead & Senior Engineer in Siena, Italy, He/Him
I specialize in full-stack application development and hybrid mobile apps. With 6 years’ experience delivering applications in the web services space. Currently obsessed with improving developer experience and enable me and my team to ship faster
Projects
A web3 decentralized exchange with custom features like stop loss and take profit
Side Projects
A fun planning poker web app
A simple web scraper that extracts data from my city's call for applications website and sends the links I care about via email. Also stores the links sent to MongoDB to avoid sending duplicate emails
Work Experience
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Spearheaded the development of an optimized CI/CD workflow for multiple projects, enhancing developer efficiency and reducing CI duration by up to 80%.
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Improved testing resilience and moved internal testing suite from Cypress to Playwright, making it easier and faster for our engineers to write tests
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Mentored junior and intermediate developers, focusing on best practices and problem-solving under tight deadlines.
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Worked on building our internal design system. Improving overall productivity and helping reduce time to first PR by 60%
Developed and mantiainted multiple e-commerce websites and accessory services for various customers.
Key technologies: React, NextJS, Typescript, Express, GraphQL, Shopify, Magento
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Lead the migration of a legacy data warehouse system, which greatly reduced error rates and reduced the need for human intervention in an automated process
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Developed features in a fast-paced environment while also keeping a high standard for accessibility and speed for multiple e-commerces handling thousands of orders per day
Improved usability and reliability of an internal no-code framework to build enterprise level dashboards and web pages.
Key technologies: Angular, Typescript, RxJS
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Created and maintained in depth documentation to allow faster onboarding of new hires and a more robust knowledge base
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Greatly Improved editor performance by identifying areas of improvement, mainly in state management/update logic which greatly improved iteration speed of the team utilising the tool
Developed APIs for one of the biggest Italian billing providers, with ~1.000.000 users
Key technologies: .NET Core, C#, NoSQL, Jenkins CI, Swagger
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Optimised multiple NoSQL queries by improving DB indexing to fit very demanding workflows like data export
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Successfully pushed to introduce extensive API documentation which greatly improved the iteration speed of our frontend team
Key technologies: React, Typescript, Django, Python, Postgres
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As the solo developer developed an enterprise level SaaS email client for working with both traditional emails and a custom Italian standard for certified emails.
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Also developed a custom fork of the same project to be used by an institutional customer
Worked as part of a team to develop the infrastructure and web application for a survey platform. Key technologies: PHP, Javascript, MySQL
Education
Certifications
A course to help you rebuild and improve your mental modal when thinking about JavaScript