Software Developer in Florence, Metropolitan City of Florence, Italy

I've been working on the Gucci.com eCommerce platform (Ruby on Rails) for almost 5 years, sitting side by side with our business users and leading the development of the site's new features to support their business goals. The platform is fully localized for 30+ countries from US and Europe to Japan, Korea, and China, each with their own languages, product catalogues, payment gateways, shipping vendors, warehouse systems, and legal requirements. My most successful projects have been the development of the gucci.com mobile website (responsive), the design and development of the platform REST APIs and the company dynamic image server. Conversion, performance, scalability, security, and UX are all first-class citizens in Gucci, and I've always done my best to keep them aligned to the outstanding quality of their products.

CommerceLayer is a multi-channel commerce API designed to power any eCommerce site, mobile app, or physical point of sale developed in any language or technology. All its resources can be fed by any source, either a CMS, a middleware or a legacy system interface. All the typical commerce features, including catalogues management, product stock, price lists, media, customers, orders, and payments are driven by its REST APIs. No user interfaces, just HTTP services. Commerce Layer talks to developers and their machines, and it's an open source project that I'm currently building with Ruby and Grape - Rails not required.

Contributors are welcome!

MissHobby is a marketplace where Italian artisans - mainly women - can publish and sell their handcrafted items. I created a multi-vendor eCommerce platform from scratch (excluding the site design) with Ruby on Rails, integrating PayPal to process all the customer payments - that are split by vendor - and the merchants' accounting, to manage their recurring subscription and the platform fees. Each merchant has an admin area to manage their store settings, items, orders, customers, messaging etc. I developed every single feature of the application by following a BDD/TDD approach, using Cucumber and RSpec as my testing frameworks. After more than 6 years, MissHobby is still a fast growing community. The new owners are doing great in marketing the website and I'm happy to see that most of my (back-end) code is still there to power their growth.

Groupayments is a web app that I created to help people (including myself) collecting money from their friends, either for a group gift, a group trip, a party or whatever. As an organizer, you could create a groupayment, invite your friends to pay their quotes and check the payment status. The payment due reminders were sent automatically. For the development I used Ruby on Rails, integrating PayPal Adaptive to properly split the payments between the organizer and the platform, that charged a small fee for each transaction.

Kubalula was a social network for home swappers that I created when Facebook was just being born and the word "social network" itself was almost unknown. As a traveler, you could build your own trusted network (your kubalula) made of friends and friends of friends (FOAF) up to three degrees of separation, so that your hosts and guests were in some way connected to you through your direct contacts or their friends. It was technically a Ruby on Rails application implementing some of the most popular graph algorithms to let the users browse their networks (fast) and explore their destinations on a (Google) map.

DoggyMind was a social network... for dogs! Basically, dog owners (a.k.a, dog lovers) could create their 4-legged friends' profiles and start interacting with the community, by "sniffing," "barking," and eventually dating their friends. Puppies were first-class citizens in the community and you could also adopt one if you liked. It was a Ruby on Rails web application that included a very targeted marketplace for pet accessories, clothing and food.