Andrea Pigato
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Padua, Province of Padua, Italy
Toptal member since January 30, 2017
Andrea is an experienced remote full-stack web developer who's also a good communicator and team player. He enjoys mentoring teammates and sharing knowledge. He's comfortable with a wide range of tech and is keen on trying new ones. While he is very detail-oriented, he also retains a holistic view. Andrea thinks every decision should be backed by data. He's not satisfied until he brings value to every aspect of a project he's involved with.
Portfolio
Experience
- CSS - 14 years
- HTML - 14 years
- Ruby - 10 years
- Ruby on Rails (RoR) - 10 years
- JavaScript - 10 years
- Node.js - 3 years
- Ember.js - 1 year
Availability
Preferred Environment
Tmux, Vim Text Editor
The most amazing...
...technology I've tried let me speed up the data analysis of a NASA satellite by 20 times.
Work Experience
Developer (Contractor)
Sky UK
- Developed a JavaScript library to integrate the chat functionality on the company's many websites.
- Developed an algorithm to compute chat agents availability and implemented in a Node.js microservice serving more than 2 billions requests a month.
- Implemented a custom testing framework for cross-browser acceptance tests.
- Helped the customer telephony department adopt an Agile workflow.
Developer
Sky UK
- Maintained high traffic web applications.
- Integrated with many internal and external services.
- Developed internal tools.
- Developed an opensource library for cross browser visual regression tests (https://github.com/sky-uk/cezanne).
Product Engineer
Arbor Education Partners
- Worked as the main developer for Arbor Insight, (https://insight.arbor.sc/), a web based automatic analysis tool for Ofsted data.
- Developed a new PDF exporting feature based on PhantomJS.
- Refactored charts generating code to use D3.js.
- Created a new feature to let the school customize their reports.
Developer
Ionoco
- Developed an image processing prototype tool with nVidia CUDA.
- Implemented a background subtraction foreground segmentation algorithm.
- Implemented a Gaussian mixture model foreground segmentation algorithm.
Developer
Freelance Work
- Developed small businesses websites.
- Curated the online presence of the iBorderline cultural magazine.
- Co-founded http://mercatinolibri.it, a moderated second-hand textbooks marketplace for high school students.
- Co-founded wecampus, a cross-university social network recipient of a seed investment by Telecom Italia Working Capital program.
Experience
Sky UK | Opensource Library for Cross-browser Visual Regression Tests
https://github.com/sky-uk/cezanneArbor Education Partners | Arbor Insight
MercatinoLibri.it
https://www.mercatinolibri.it48 Rails
Exfil
Moneyout
Education
Master's Degree in Physics
Università di Padova - Padua, Italy
Certificate in Visualization, Development, and Data Science Course (Big Data)
BigDive.eu - Turin, Italy
Bachelor's Degree in Physics
Università di Padova - Padua, Italy
Certifications
AWS Developer Associate
AWS
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Sinon.JS, Node.js, D3.js, Backbone.js, PhantomJS, AMQP
Tools
Cucumber, RSpec, Mocha, Git, Vim Text Editor, Tmux
Languages
CSS, HTML, Sass, JavaScript, Ruby, Haml, PHP
Frameworks
Selenium, Jasmine, Sinatra, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Express.js, PhalconPHP, Ember.js
Paradigms
Continuous Delivery (CD), Automated Testing, Continuous Integration (CI), Agile
Platforms
Linux, Heroku, Amazon, NVIDIA CUDA, WordPress, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Storage
MongoDB, Redis, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MySQL, PostgreSQL
Other
GNU, Cloud Foundry, Ember CLI
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