Manuel Salinardi
Verified Expert in Engineering
Full-stack Developer
Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy
Toptal member since September 26, 2022
Manuel is a senior full-stack and AI integration engineer with 9+ years of experience building B2B SaaS, mobile, real-time, and AI-enabled products. He works across TypeScript, Node.js, React, React Native, MongoDB, AWS, WebRTC, RAG, and MCP. He turns complex requirements into reliable, maintainable systems and leads delivery from architecture through testing and production releases.
Portfolio
Experience
- JavaScript - 9 years
- TypeScript - 8 years
- Node.js - 7 years
- Socket.IO - 7 years
- React - 5 years
- Audio - 5 years
- Web Audio - 2 years
- Tone.js - 2 years
Preferred Environment
MacOS, Jira, Bitbucket, GitHub, Microsoft Teams, Swagger, Monday.com, WebStorm, Full-stack Development
The most amazing...
...product I've helped evolve is Acty, an AI-enabled service platform supporting real-time assistance, knowledge, and field operations for hundreds of companies.
Work Experience
Lead Full-stack Developer
Logistics Technology Company
- Led full-stack delivery across three connected product surfaces: a React Native/Expo inspection app, a React web portal, and Node.js/TypeScript back-end services.
- Built and evolved mobile inspection workflows for field teams, covering identification capture, validation, image handling, and structured report generation.
- Developed back-end APIs and services with Node.js, TypeScript, MongoDB, and AWS to process inspection data, media, notifications, and operational reports.
- Coordinated directly with the CTO, translating product requirements into technical plans, reviews, QA, and production releases.
- Maintained and extended a long-running production platform across mobile, web, back-end, and cloud components while working with a high degree of autonomy.
Senior Full-stack Developer | Team Leader
Icona Technology Spa
- Led the development and evolution of an ecosystem of B2B SaaS products for industrial after-sales service, remote assistance, and operational knowledge management, including Acty, Service Qube, Sophia AI, and Digital Work Instructions.
- Designed and implemented full-stack capabilities across TypeScript and Node.js back ends, React and React Native applications, MongoDB data models, real-time communication services, and enterprise integrations.
- Designed and implemented MCP-based integrations for an enterprise AI assistant, connecting technical knowledge with digital operational workflows across multiple SaaS products.
- Contributed to enterprise AI capabilities for indexing and retrieving information from technical documents and reports using RAG and automated validation.
- Built and optimized cross-platform Digital Work Instruction capabilities spanning authoring, versioning, translations, execution, media processing, reporting, and integration with the wider product ecosystem.
- Evolved Acty’s production real-time platform, improving WebRTC media functionality, messaging, cross-platform reliability, operational stability, and enterprise storage integrations.
- Led and supported a small development team, translated product requirements into technical solutions, reviewed implementations, and oversaw automated testing, debugging, and production releases.
Full-stack Engineer
Eran Balter
- Utilized Node.js, WebRTC, and WebSockets to build a real-time communication module, enabling users to collaborate and share music in real time.
- Conducted comprehensive performance analysis and optimization of the UI through techniques such as code refactoring and optimizing React rendering processes. This resulted in a significant improvement in application performance.
- Collaborated with the client to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications, ensuring alignment with the desired product.
Full-stack Developer
Samui Web
- Developed a web app for booking golf courses, including creating an interactive course map in SVG.
- Built a WordPress-based website for real estate sales on a Thai island.
- Constructed a login system for a web app in the financial sector.
Full-stack Developer
INFOEVOLUTION
- Developed a CRM web app for the management of invoices, suppliers, and customers with JavaScript, PHP, and MySQL.
- Designed and implemented the user experience (UX) and user interface (UI).
- Managed the project myself from the first to the last phase, including the design and production release.
Android Mobile Developer
Devlabtech
- Developed an Android app with Java for news about one of the main Italian football teams, FC Inter. It was extremely popular, with more than 100,000 downloads in the Play Store.
- Worked on an existing app by redesigning the user interface (UI).
- Rewrote the above-mentioned app's code from scratch.
Experience
Augmented Reality Software for Remote Guidance
https://www.acty.comThe software consists of a Node.js-based back-end with a MongoDB database and clients for various platforms: Mac and Windows with Electron, Android and iOS with Java and Swift, Hololens with Unity and C#, the web part with React, TypeScript, and an end-to-end test with WebdriverIO.
I took ownership of the server, web, and Hololens portions.
Art NFT Project
I followed the ERC-721 standard to make it compatible with Opensea and made the smart contracts upgradeable for any new features to be added.
Step-by-step Tutorial Generator App
I developed the back-end in NodeJs, TypeScript, MongoDB, and Fastify and tests in Mocha. I supervised and managed the front-end team. Then I took care of integrating the app with three different projects. A web project in React with the React Native Web library, an iOS native project in Swift, and an Android native project in Java.
Certifications
JSNSD: OpenJS Node.js Services Developer
The Linux Foundation
JSNAD: OpenJS Node.js Application Developer
The Linux Foundation
Mobile Web Specialist Certification
Augmented Reality
Fastweb Digital Academy
Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 8 Programmer
Oracle
Internet of Things
Fastweb Digital Academy
Programming Techniques and Languages for Video Game Development
Fastweb Digital Academy
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Socket.IO, WebRTC, React, Node.js, REST APIs, jQuery, Web3.js, React Native for Web, Web Audio, React Redux, Stripe
Tools
Microsoft Teams, Mocha, WebStorm, NPM, ChatGPT, Jira, Bitbucket, GitHub, WebdriverIO, JDK 8, MetaMask, MQTT, Node-RED, Grafana, Git, Stripe Checkout, Expo, SendGrid
Languages
JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS3, CSS, Java 8, Solidity, C#, PHP, Java, SQL, Sass, Swift
Frameworks
React Native, Express.js, Fastify, Swagger, Electron, Unity3D, Unity, Tone.js, Redux
Paradigms
Responsive Layout, Unit Testing, Test-driven Development (TDD), REST, Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Storage
MongoDB, NoSQL, JSON, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MySQL, InfluxDB, PostgreSQL
Platforms
MacOS, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Blockchain, Firebase, AWS Lambda, WordPress, Android, iOS
Other
WebSockets, Back-end, Front-end, Full-stack, APIs, API Integration, Full-stack Development, Front-end Development, Monday.com, Ethers.js, Ethereum Smart Contracts, ERC-721, Non-fungible Tokens (NFT), Web3, Crypto, CSV, Audio, Videos, ChatGPT API, ChatGPT Prompts, Prompt Engineering, Microsoft HoloLens, Internet of Things (IoT), Web Security, Servers, HTTP, RAG Architecture
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