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Back-end Developer
Location
Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy
Toptal Member Since
October 10, 2022
Andrea is highly passionate about the software engineering industry. He loves building and working on colossal and complicated infrastructures. Andrea has a mathematics background and is proficient in an array of programming languages. He is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect, and for more than 10 years, he has been delivering high-quality and user-rich solutions for clients all around the globe.
Portfolio
Assist Digital SpA
Cloud Architecture, Terraform, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure...
Assist Digital
Amazon CloudFront CDN, Amazon Cognito, Amazon DynamoDB...
Nebula 7
TypeScript, Node.js, MongoDB, MySQL, REST APIs, GraphQL, JavaScript, Docker...
Experience
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Linux, Node.js, TypeScript, AWS Cloud Architecture
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on is the development of the TypeScript framework Uranio.
Work Experience
Solutions Architect
2024 - PRESENT
Assist Digital SpA
- Designing scalable and resilient architectures, with a focus on ensuring optimal performance, security, and flexibility.
- Developing scalable and resilient architectures, with a focus on ensuring optimal performance, security, and flexibility.
- Deploying scalable and resilient architectures, with a focus on ensuring optimal performance, security, and flexibility.
Technologies: Cloud Architecture, Terraform, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Senior Back-end Engineer
2023 - PRESENT
Assist Digital
- Designed, developed, and deployed the whole infrastructure for delivering the AI services built by the AI team.
- Designed, developed, and deployed the public API offered by the SaaS.
- Developed, designed, and deployed an array of custom products and solutions that use Artificial Intelligence for very different types of clients.
Technologies: Amazon CloudFront CDN, Amazon Cognito, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Cognito User Pools, Amazon Web Services (AWS), API Gateways, AWS SDK, AWS CLI, JavaScript, Node.js, TypeScript, REST APIs, Puppeteer, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), DevOps, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Development (CD), Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Serverless Framework, Software Architecture, Architecture, APIs, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Computing
Senior Solutions Architect
2015 - PRESENT
Nebula 7
- Passed the AWS Certified Solutions Architect exam.
- Built an application for Campari's most qualified bartenders' secret club.
- Created an interactive video installation for the Venice Biennale of Architecture.
- Trained a generative adversarial neural network with TensorFlow at Ars Electronica using the supercomputer of ETH University in Zurich.
- Developed an augmented reality (AR) application for an exhibition in Saint Petersburg.
- Built a framework used by hundreds of websites and eCommerce that made my clients earn more than €1 million.
- Won the Best Website of the Day and the Best Developer of the Day awards given by Awwwards, a professional web design and development competition body.
- Developed a digital synthesizer downloaded by hundreds of people.
Technologies: TypeScript, Node.js, MongoDB, MySQL, REST APIs, GraphQL, JavaScript, Docker, Bash Script, Python, Rust, Apollo Server, GLSL, Cloud Firestore, PostgreSQL, Vue, Nuxt.js, Express.js, Knex.js, Konva, Puppeteer, TensorFlow, Docker Compose, Firebase, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure, HAProxy, Touch Design, Max/MSP/Jitter, Processing, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, GPG, Vim Text Editor, FFmpeg, SOX, Systemctl, launchd, Zsh, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Development (CD), Architecture, APIs, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Computing
Senior Back-end Engineer
2022 - 2023
Botshelf.ai
- Designed, developed, and deployed the whole infrastructure for delivering the AI services built by the AI team.
- Designed, developed, and deployed the public API offered by the SaaS.
- Developed and designed the platform's billing system for accepting the final user's credit cards.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), TypeScript, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Amazon Cognito User Pools, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Cognito, AWS CLI, AWS SDK, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Serverless Framework, Serverless Architecture, Software Architecture, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Development (CD), API Gateways, APIs, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Computing
CTO
2014 - 2023
Socialrise
- Developed and deployed dozens of websites and web apps for clients worldwide.
- Created an augmented reality application for the fashion brand Fila.
- Built an augmented reality application for the fashion brand Santoni.
- Made an audio installation for the brand Nemozena at Dubai Design Week.
Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, MySQL, MongoDB, Docker, PHP, HTML, CSS, WebGL, Sass, Pug, Three.js, Augmented Reality (AR), Docker Compose, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Apache, cPanel, Web Host Manager (WHM), REST APIs, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Full-stack, APIs
Lecturer
2020 - 2020
Architectural Association
- Acted as a lecturer at the Architectural Association School of Architecture for the Psychotropic Topologies summer program.
- Taught the students how to develop Python patches for TouchDesigner.
- Held lessons to the students on the basics of Python programming language.
Technologies: Python, Touch Design
Software Architect
2010 - 2016
x71c9
- Developed 100+ websites for clients all around the globe.
- Built a framework used by hundreds of websites and eCommerce that helped my clients earn more than €1 million.
- Developed dozens of eCommerce solutions with a framework I built in PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), PHP, Node.js, TypeScript, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Full-stack, APIs
Lecturer
2012 - 2015
IED
- Acted as a lecturer on the Web Communication course. The full path of the course allows students to address all phases of developing an internet website.
- Held classes for dozens of students in the programming language PHP and the database MySQL.
- Taught dozens of students the markup languages HTML, sheet style language CSS, and programming languages JavaScript.
Technologies: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
Software Engineer
2010 - 2011
Man-Super
- Designed and developed a new open-source CMS called Camargue.
- Developed and deployed a website and web apps using Camargue.
- Sharpened my PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS programming skills.
Technologies: JavaScript
Software Engineer
2009 - 2010
Klever
- Implemented web services with technologies like Apache Axis 2.
- Gained skills in the implementation of web services with technologies such as JAX-WS.
- Developed a software called Documentum in Java. The software was a document manager used by big companies.
Technologies: Java
Experience
Uranio Framework
https://github.com/x71c9/uranio-cliUranio is an open-source framework written in TypeScript for developing CRUD and GraphQL APIs. By defining just a few files for the schema, it generates a full API service running on Express.js or Apollo, or both. It can interact with any database, SQL, and NoSQL. It then auto-generates the software development kit for the client. Also, it has a module for building a full administration panel for interacting with an API from the browser. The panel is built using Vue and Nuxt.js.
Princess of Asturias Awards
https://www.fpa.es/en/princess-of-asturias-awards/A video installation for the Princess of Asturias Awards 2021 in Oviedo, Spain, for the commissioned MAEID project Sylva. The project was launched in collaboration with LOREM.
Nemozena
https://andreareni.com/nzenaIn 2018, I created an immersive audio installation for Nemozena's pavilion during Dubai Design Week.
I developed software connected to six speakers and six motion sensors. The visitors were triggering the sounds by walking along the perimeter of the installation. Each sensor controlled a different speaker, generating a 3D sound environment. The people were in control of the outcome.
I developed software connected to six speakers and six motion sensors. The visitors were triggering the sounds by walking along the perimeter of the installation. Each sensor controlled a different speaker, generating a 3D sound environment. The people were in control of the outcome.
Virtua Posse
https://andreareni.com/virtua-posseVirtua Posse is a collective I founded in 2019 with Jacopo Tripodi and Gianluca Lonigro. They mainly focus on extreme aesthetics and coding.
We were asked to make an exhibition in Saint Petersburg at FFTN and showcase their work. For this project, I made an augmented reality experience and a video demo that was shown at RAF25, a techno club inside a Soviet bunker.
We were asked to make an exhibition in Saint Petersburg at FFTN and showcase their work. For this project, I made an augmented reality experience and a video demo that was shown at RAF25, a techno club inside a Soviet bunker.
Ars Electronica
https://andreareni.com/eye-of-the-otherEye of the other is a project made by MAEID – Future Retrospective Narrative in Linz in 2019 and Phytophilia – Chlorophobia – Situated Knowledge in Bourges.
For this project, I trained a generative adversarial network that can generate echolocation spectrograms of nectar-feeding bats. The installation tries to represent what a bat can see through its ultrasound range.
For this project, I trained a generative adversarial network that can generate echolocation spectrograms of nectar-feeding bats. The installation tries to represent what a bat can see through its ultrasound range.
Venice Biennale
https://andreareni.com/venice-biennaleI made the video installation for the MAEID project presented at the Biennale of Architecture 2021 in Venice. The project was delivered in collaboration with LOREM.
ZEPHIR
https://andreareni.com/zephirZEPHIR is an additive and subtractive digital synthesizer. It is a Max for Live device and a standalone app for Mac and Windows.
In 2018 ZEPHIR was exhibited at the Tate Modern in London for the Offprint Art Publishing Fair as part of the Giung.la collective stand.
In 2018 ZEPHIR was exhibited at the Tate Modern in London for the Offprint Art Publishing Fair as part of the Giung.la collective stand.
Education
2005 - 2009
Bachelor's Degree in Pure Mathematics
Sapienza University of Rome - Rome, Italy
Certifications
DECEMBER 2023 - PRESENT
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services Training and Certification
Skills
Languages
TypeScript, JavaScript, Bash Script, PHP, HTML, CSS, GraphQL, Sass, Pug, Max/MSP/Jitter, Processing, Python, GLSL, Rust, Java, C++
Frameworks
Nuxt.js, Express.js, Serverless Framework
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, REST APIs, WebGL, Vue, Konva, Puppeteer, Three.js, FFmpeg, TensorFlow
Tools
Knex.js, Docker Compose, Vim Text Editor, AWS CLI, AWS SDK, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Cognito, Apache, Zsh, GPG, Terraform
Paradigms
DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Development (CD), Serverless Architecture
Platforms
Linux, Docker, Firebase, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure, cPanel, Arduino, Raspberry Pi
Storage
MongoDB, Cloud Firestore, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon DynamoDB
Other
Apollo Server, Touch Design, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Full-stack, Amazon Cognito User Pools, Software Architecture, API Gateways, Solution Architecture, Serverless, AWS Cloud Architecture, Architecture, APIs, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Computing, Mathematics, Augmented Reality (AR), Web Host Manager (WHM), HAProxy, SOX, Systemctl, launchd, Astro, VST, Cloud Infrastructure
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