Claudio is available for hire

Claudio Santini

Verified Expert in Engineering

Large Language Models (LLMs) Developer

London, United Kingdom

Toptal member since April 19, 2016

Expertise

Full-stack Agile Development Python JavaScript Django AngularJS Neural Network Deep Learning LLM CSS Node.js Docker React.js

Bio

Claudio is a generalist, polyglot software engineer with 360-degree full-stack web experience. Claudio has worked freelance in London for big financial institutions and small companies, designing web architectures and delivering complex visual React, Node.js web applications, or Django back ends on time.

Portfolio

Tatango, Inc.

Node.js, AWS Lambda, Serverless Framework, Microservices...

United Technologies Advanced Projects

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Elasticsearch, React, Twisted, JavaScript, Django...

Publishing Push

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Django REST Framework, AngularJS, Python

Experience

JavaScript - 10 years
Python - 10 years
Node.js - 8 years
Django - 7 years
React - 3 years
AWS Lambda - 2 years
Large Language Models (LLMs) - 2 years

Availability

Full-time

Preferred Environment

Linux, MacOS, WebStorm, PyCharm, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, TypeScript, Large Language Models (LLMs)

The most amazing...

...thing I've coded is an AI software for finding common sub-trees with maximum similarity for automatic data scraping from structured websites.

Work Experience

Software Engineer

2020 - 2023

Tatango, Inc.

Scaled up the back-end infrastructure of one of the biggest messaging platforms in the US, leveraging AWS Lambda and CDK.
Moved parts of the legacy monolith to a serverless architecture gradually, keeping the best of both worlds.
Implemented various core back-end serverless microservices (Node.js).

Technologies: Node.js, AWS Lambda, Serverless Framework, Microservices, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Solution Architecture

Software Engineer

2019 - 2019

United Technologies Advanced Projects

Designed/architected an AWS cloud.
Developed multiple Python 3 servers.
Designed and implemented the back end and front end for a Django/JavaScript-based mobile-friendly web app with REST APIs and real-time websocket messaging.

Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Elasticsearch, React, Twisted, JavaScript, Django, Python

Software Engineer

2016 - 2017

Publishing Push

Designed and implemented a complex user-facing web app with AngularJS and Django REST Framework.
Set up cloud infrastructure and handled deployments and maintenance.

Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Django REST Framework, AngularJS, Python

Software Engineer

2014 - 2015

Thomson Reuters

Created a bleeding-edge web application with Gantt chart in Angular for worldwide operational management across time zones.
Helped create a Node.js framework to collect and aggregate data from many different legacy platforms.

Technologies: Elasticsearch, AngularUI, Node.js, AngularJS, Architecture, Solution Architecture

Software Engineer

2013 - 2013

Mind Candy

Built a Node.js video game back end for thousands of real-time players over websockets.
Helped scale Node.js infrastructure to tens of thousands of concurrent websocket connections.

Technologies: Express.js, Node.js, CoffeeScript

Software Egineer

2011 - 2012

Beamly

Wore many hats as an early addition to the company, building the AWS cloud infrastructure.
Created an asynchronous scalable chat server for browsers, Android, and iOS. Tested with tens of thousands concurrent users. Built with Node.js, Socket.IO, and Redis.
Utilized a bit of natural language processing in the form of a Scala server that gets a stream of subtitles from all TV channels and generates relevant tags in real time. The tag Disambiguator is a naïve Bayesian classifier that uses the DBpedia links/abstracts database.
Developed a monitoring/alert system mostly written in Python. It feeds data to a graphing server (Graphite) and monitors failures given service metrics constraints.
Worked on the HTML5/CSS3 single-page web app (Backbone JS framework).

Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Socket.IO, Express.js, Node.js, JavaScript, Django, Python, Scala

Experience

How2

https://how2terminal.com

A popular AI auto-completion tool for the command line based on GPT. How2 automatically generates Bash, Zsh, and PowerShell scripts straight into the terminal, replacing Google and Stack Overflow for most of the daily job of a system administrator.

Hackwage

https://github.com/santinic/hackwage

A scraper for IT jobs that uses Elasticsearch to find remote jobs from all over the world. The crawlers are written in Node.js, and the website is built with Django on AWS. It is used daily by thousands of users.

Hackurls.com

https://hackurls.com

This is a news aggregator for hacker and programmer news written in Python and Django. The project has been used daily by thousands of users since 2010.

Pampy

https://github.com/santinic/pampy

A popular functional pattern-matching library for Python 3 that simplifies coding. Pampy is a small and fast library that often makes your Python code more readable and easier to reason about. I have also developed a JavaScript version called Pampy.js.

Qathome.com

http://www.qathome.com

I designed and implemented the UI of this ticketing and queuing system for an Italian startup. The web app works across all mobile platforms.

Education

2007 - 2010

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

University of Pisa - Pisa, Italy

Skills

Libraries/APIs

REST APIs, Node.js, AngularUI, React, Socket.IO, NumPy, Pandas

Tools

PyCharm, WebStorm, Chrome Developer Tools, IntelliJ IDEA, Auth0

Languages

Python, JavaScript, Python 3, HTML, CSS, Scala, Java, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, SQL

Frameworks

Django, AngularJS, Django REST Framework, Express.js, Serverless Framework, Twisted, Angular, Flask

Paradigms

Test-driven Development (TDD), Agile Software Development, Lambda Architecture, Extreme Programming, Microservices, Functional Programming

Platforms

Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), MacOS, Ubuntu, Linux, AWS Lambda

Storage

Redis Cache, Elasticsearch, Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL

Other

APIs, Full-stack, Neural Networks, Deep Learning, Architecture, Solution Architecture, Large Language Models (LLMs), Django-rest-auth, WebSockets, Algorithms, Computer Science, Chrome Extensions, Finance, Fintech, Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), OpenAI GPT-3 API, Development

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