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UpStack
Senior Java Engineer
2022 - Present (3 years)
Creating and developing innovative software solutions for clients across a broad range of industries.
Participate in scrums consisting of cross-functional teams, both software and hardware.
Ensure that features are being delivered efficiently and on-time.
SIX
Senior Software Engineer
2020 - Present (5 years)
Designed and developed new features for SIX's custom DBMS - providing support for new data formats on the solution.
Refactored the legacy codebase using modern, scalable technologies and fixed complex bugs on the project.
Supervise the rewrite of the monitoring UI codebase from Spring MVC/JSP to a new, modern framework.
Amazon
Software Development Engineer II
2013 - 2020 (7 years)
Contributed and participated in high-quality solutions as part of the Browse Tools/Taxonomy team.
Enhanced batch jobs, REST/JSON-RPC APIs and distributed workflows that process taxonomy data on Amazon websites.
Assessed the technical feasibility and impact of proposed solutions and resolved potential issues that arose.
Syniverse
Software Engineer
2010 - 2013 (3 years)
Built and deployed different backend components for the A2P messaging platform.
Worked on the management UI for the platform - ensuring correct and efficient utilization of resources.
Performed code reviews, assisted peers with difficulties on the backend and handled troubleshooting.
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Senior Engineer - SIX Financial
Developed and supported new data formats for financial data processing.
Enhanced existing services with new features and support for new data sources.
Implemented a custom DBMS on a mainframe to store the enriched data.
Senior Engineer - Amazon Global Taxonomy
Developed a command-line Spring application for comparing Amazon taxonomy graphs.
Implemented a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) to maintain synchronization between different taxonomy graphs.
Reduced the time to launch a new retail website taxonomy from one year to a couple of months.
Senior Engineer - AWS SWS Stub
Developed and implemented a test framework to stub APIs on AWS Simple Workflow Service.
The solution utilizes integration tests to verify the behavior of an orchestrator.
The goal is to coordinate activities within a distributed workflow.
Education
Spring Professional
VMWare
2021 - 2021
Java SE 11 Developer
Oracle
2021 - 2021
AWS Developer - Associate
Amazon Web Services
2020 - Present (5 years)
AWS Solutions Architect - Associate
Amazon Web Services
2020 - Present (5 years)
Offensive Security
OSWP
2012 - Present (13 years)
CompTIA Linux+
CompTIA
2011 - Present (14 years)
MSc. Computer Science
Università di Catania
2006 - 2009 (3 years)
BSc. Computer Science
Università di Catania
2003 - 2006 (3 years)