Fabio Cicerchia

10x Software Engineer Learning Path is an online course with a curated list of excellent content, including articles, videos, books, exercises, tips, and suggestions collected over the years as a software engineer, from junior developer position up to CTO.

I created this learning path, which started as a simple GitHub repository and became an ebook and an online course. It helps developers become better at their craft by providing significant resources to strengthen the knowledge about several topics, including front end, back end, system administrator, DevOps, Agile, project management, and many more.

Go Proxy Cache is a simple reverse proxy with Caching, written in Go, using Redis.

The main features are the following:
- Full-page caching, via Redis.
- Cache invalidation and cache bypass
- ETag support
- Cache Stampede Prevention & Serving Stale Content
- HTTP(S) Load Balancing, multiple algorithms available
- HTTP/2 support
- SSL/TLS certificates, via ACME or own SSL/TLS certificates
- Healthcheck endpoint
- Cache Circuit Breaker
- HTTP to HTTPS redirects
- GZIP compression
- Server timeouts
- OpenTelemetry tracing
- Prometheus endpoint
- Support for Sentry and Syslog

The primary usage of this tool is to speed up any website by caching and serving static content. It acts as a reverse proxy and can save the extra load from the back-end servers.

This project was born because there was a need to have the latest Nginx version available with Lua support; OpenResty does it ideally; unfortunately, the release process is not as fast as one would desire.

I managed to automate the build process of those docker images as soon as a new Nginx version is released or an OS distro update is released. In this way, I managed to provide Nginx with Lua support on each new version.

Nginx 1.19 and Docker image with Lua support based on Alpine Linux, Amazon Linux, Fedora, and Ubuntu. The main features are:
- Support for Lua.
- Minimal size only, minimal layers
- The same build configure of the official Nginx image
- Security checks: Docker Bench for Security, Snyk
- Docker health checks
- Exposes default ports (80 and 443), easy to extend
- Support for multiple Linux distros: Alpine, Amazon, Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu
- Extra Lua modules
- Performance benchmarks
- LuaRocks support.

Badge Poser is an open-source tool for generating PHP badges that renders some badges for your readme with the Packagist information.

It uses Shields for packagist.org repository that shows how many times your project has been downloaded from packagist.org or its latest stable version.

At the moment, I'm the sole infrastructure maintainer on AWS.

DXpertise is an IT training course aggregation platform that allows developers to find the best courses available on the market.

The platform is made by developers for developers with the aim to increase the knowledge level of each one of us to make the whole industry better, more challenging, qualified, satisfying, and fun.

Development and project management of a multilanguage web portal for a big Italian healthcare company.

The portal ranges from a CMS to health structure management through profiled user registration, booking, contact, and form to ask questions directly to doctors.

There is also a supplier management system including registration, payment, and confidential documents archive and formation system to manage all the courses provided from internal and external universities, with the possibility to book them.

For this project, I worked on integrating into Joomla CMS custom features like photo and video gallery, custom search to find doctors and appointments with the possibility to book or cancel them, and integration and aggregation of clinical departments retrieved by an external service.