Ugo

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

2021

A web3 decentralized exchange with custom features like stop loss and take profit

Side Projects

2023

A fun planning poker web app

2022

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

Writing

2023
Sharing a Prisma Instance Between Projects, me

Work Experience

2023 — Now
  • Spearheaded the development of an optimized CI/CD workflow for multiple projects, enhancing developer efficiency and reducing CI duration by up to 80%.

  • Improved testing resilience and moved internal testing suite from Cypress to Playwright, making it easier and faster for our engineers to write tests

  • Mentored junior and intermediate developers, focusing on best practices and problem-solving under tight deadlines.

  • Worked on building our internal design system. Improving overall productivity and helping reduce time to first PR by 60%

2021 — 2023

Developed and mantiainted multiple e-commerce websites and accessory services for various customers.

Key technologies: React, NextJS, Typescript, Express, GraphQL, Shopify, Magento

  • 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

  • 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

2020 — 2021

Improved usability and reliability of an internal no-code framework to build enterprise level dashboards and web pages.

Key technologies: Angular, Typescript, RxJS

  • Created and maintained in depth documentation to allow faster onboarding of new hires and a more robust knowledge base

  • 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

2019 — 2020

Developed APIs for one of the biggest Italian billing providers, with ~1.000.000 users

Key technologies: .NET Core, C#, NoSQL, Jenkins CI, Swagger

  • Optimised multiple NoSQL queries by improving DB indexing to fit very demanding workflows like data export

  • Successfully pushed to introduce extensive API documentation which greatly improved the iteration speed of our frontend team

2017 — 2019

Key technologies: React, Typescript, Django, Python, Postgres

  • 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.

  • Also developed a custom fork of the same project to be used by an institutional customer

2016 — 2016

Worked as part of a team to develop the infrastructure and web application for a survey platform. Key technologies: PHP, Javascript, MySQL

Education

2012 — 2017
IT Highschool diploma at Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Tito Sarrocchi
Siena, Italy

Certifications

2021

A course to help you rebuild and improve your mental modal when thinking about JavaScript

2016
English C1/Advanced from IH Belfast

Contact

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