resume.json

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    "name": "Matteo Depalo",
    "label": "Senior Software Engineer",
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    "email": "matteo+resume@depalo.me",
    "phone": "+447751443392",
    "url": "",
    "location": {
      "city": "London",
      "countryCode": "GBR",
      "region": "England"
    },
    "summary": "I'm a senior full-stack web developer who is used to wearing many hats thanks to my extended experience working in startups and medium sized companies, where building a great product has been the main focus. I love taking on new challenges, especially when it involves learning something out of my comfort zone that will broaden my general understanding of a subject. I also love creating refined development processes that lead to a very effective working environment with the whole team.",
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        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "username": "matteodepalo",
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/matteodepalo/"
      },
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        "network": "Github",
        "username": "matteodepalo",
        "url": "https://github.com.com/matteodepalo/"
      }
    ]
  },
  "work": [
    {
      "name": "Zapnito",
      "position": "Senior Software Engineer",
      "startDate": "2019-06-30",
      "highlights": [
        "Streamlined customer onboarding process by migrating a big part of the infrastructure to Terraform",
        "Integrated Algolia to help us improve the platform search experience",
        "Implemented a private direct messaging platform with Twilio and Ember.js",
        "Made sure that our Ember + Rails stack was up to date",
        "Led the team effort in rewriting our internal authoring tools in Ember.js",
        "Migrated the whole codebase to Typescript",
        "Automated our deployment workflow in Slack",
        "Unified development stacks with VSCode Devcontainers and Docker",
        "Introduced review apps to help us QA our PRs faster"
      ],
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/zapnito/",
      "location": "London",
      "summary": "Worked as a senior software engineer on the whole stack, focusing my efforts first on the front-end and then on the infrastructure."
    },
    {
      "name": "Caldera Labs",
      "position": "Director",
      "startDate": "2015-09-30",
      "endDate": "2019-06-30",
      "highlights": [
        "Featurist - Worked on new features, improvements and refactors for an app written with hyperdom.js",
        "DVELP - Worked on a website for a gym in central London built with Rails and Vue.js",
        "GlobalWebIndex - Worked on internal reports and graphs built with D3.js",
        "The Trainline - Worked on architecturing and implementing a new JSON API in Ruby that allowed every service in the company to communicate using a common protocol.",
        "Kayako - Worked on a major rebuild of the product in Ember.js.",
        "Zapnito - Worked on the main application built with Ruby on Rails and Ember.js."
      ],
      "summary": "Founded Caldera Labs, a company that focuses on Ember, Rails, and Elixir consulting in London.",
      "location": "London"
    },
    {
      "name": "AlphaSights",
      "position": "Product Lead",
      "startDate": "2013-10-31",
      "endDate": "2015-09-30",
      "highlights": [
        "Shipped a major reimplementation of the main internal product using Ember.js",
        "Contributed to the development of our internal front-end framework built with SASS and enhanced by our Ember components library.",
        "Implemented a new way to get to know and better serve all our internal users leveraging Intercom.",
        "Introduced a new type of process based on weekly releases with an updated changelog for our main product.",
        "Changed the way we communicate as a global team with the help of Discourse."
      ],
      "summary": "Worked as a full-stack developer and product lead on the main application which is built with Ruby on Rails.",
      "url": "https://www.alphasights.com",
      "location": "London"
    },
    {
      "name": "Self-Employed",
      "position": "Freelance Web Developer",
      "startDate": "2013-07-31",
      "endDate": "2013-10-31",
      "highlights": [],
      "summary": "Worked on some side projects in Ruby on Rails.",
      "location": "Treviso, Italy"
    },
    {
      "name": "Responsa",
      "position": "CTO & Co-founder",
      "startDate": "2011-11-30",
      "endDate": "2013-07-31",
      "highlights": [
        "Led a team of 4 engineers delivering a front-end heavy product built with Backbone.js which was sold to multiple clients.",
        "Successfully migrated away from Heroku by using Capistrano and Digitalocean"
      ],
      "summary": "Co-founder of Responsa, a startup that offer an embeddable Q&A widget developed with Ruby on Rails, with the role of lead web developer and CTO. Responsa was a company growing in H-Farm, a startup incubator in northern Italy.",
      "url": "https://responsa.ai",
      "location": "Treviso, Italy"
    },
    {
      "name": "Lucido",
      "position": "Co-founder",
      "startDate": "2011-04-30",
      "endDate": "2011-11-30",
      "highlights": [
        "Ruby on Rails",
        "iOS Development"
      ],
      "summary": "Worked at Lucido on the creation of Playround, a platform for gamers in Ruby on Rails. Collaborated to the development of the iPad game ColorManiac and of the iPhone application Manistone.",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/lucido/"
    },
    {
      "name": "IFAE",
      "position": "Physicist",
      "startDate": "2010-05-01",
      "endDate": "2011-08-01",
      "highlights": [
        "Learned C++",
        "Data analysis performed with Root"
      ],
      "summary": "Worked at the High Energy Physics Institute (IFAE) in Barcelona (Spain) dealing with the caracterization of specific hardware for astronomic observations. Development in ROOT environment (C++ language).",
      "location": "Barcelona, Spain"
    }
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  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "Università degli Studi di Siena",
      "area": "Physics",
      "studyType": "Bachelor degree",
      "startDate": "2006-12-31",
      "endDate": "2010-12-31",
      "score": "First",
      "courses": []
    },
    {
      "institution": "Liceo classico Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Siena",
      "area": "Humanism",
      "studyType": "High school diploma",
      "startDate": "2001-12-31",
      "endDate": "2006-12-31",
      "score": "",
      "courses": []
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    "level": "Master",
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      "React",
      "Ember.js",
      "Next.js"
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    "level": "Master",
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      "Ruby on Rails"
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    "name": "DevOps",
    "level": "Master",
    "keywords": [
      "AWS",
      "Terraform",
      "Vercel",
      "Heroku"
    ]
  }, {
    "name": "Web Development",
    "level": "Advanced",
    "keywords": [
      "Rust",
      "Elixir",
      "Phoenix",
      "GraphQL",
      "Scala",
      "ReasonML"
    ]
  }, {
    "name": "Databases",
    "level": "Advanced",
    "keywords": [
      "PostgreSQL",
      "Elasticsearch",
      "Redis"
    ]
  }, {
    "name": "Embedded",
    "level": "Intermediate",
    "keywords": [
      "Rust",
      "Embedded HAL"
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      "fluency": "Native Speaker",
      "language": "Italian"
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    {
      "fluency": "Full Professional",
      "language": "English"
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    {
      "fluency": "Limited Working",
      "language": "Japanese"
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      "name": "Chess",
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    {
      "name": "Rock Climbing",
      "keywords": []
    },
    {
      "name": "Japanese",
      "keywords": []
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    {
      "name": "Cooking",
      "keywords": []
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  "projects": [{
    "name": "Focaccia",
    "description": "An app that lets you keep track of baking recipes and calculates baker's percentages.",
    "highlights": [
      "Next.js",
      "Nest.js",
      "GraphQL API automatically mapped to Typescript client via the use of a code generation tool."
    ],
    "keywords": [],
    "startDate": "2021-10-10",
    "url": "https://focaccia.app",
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    "name": "Ariko",
    "description": "An embedded software for Arduino that interfaces with a Certabo Chess board and various components like a LCD display and buttons.",
    "highlights": [
      "Rust",
      "Embedded HAL"
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    "startDate": "2021-04-01",
    "url": "https://github.com/matteodepalo/ariko",
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    "name": "Best Before",
    "description": "An iOS app that helps you keep track of expiring things in your fridge.",
    "highlights": [
      "Swift"
    ],
    "keywords": [],
    "startDate": "2018-05-01",
    "url": "https://github.com/calderalabs/BestBefore",
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