Summary
Gianmarco Salerno is a Senior Software Engineer in the Greater Chicago area with 10 years of experience delivering scalable mobile and backend systems, specializing in iOS/Android and payment-processing backends. He currently serves as Senior Software Engineer at Felt and has a track record of architecting backend microservices, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and performance optimizations that reduced deployment time by 60% and improved efficiency for merchant platforms serving thousands of users globally. His full-stack skill set spans native mobile (Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin), backend (Python, Java, TypeScript, Node.js), RESTful and GraphQL APIs, PostgreSQL and Redis, with Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS for scalable deployments. A proven technical leader, he has mentored teams, guided interview processes, and driven modular design, testing frameworks, and cross-functional collaboration across payments and POS domains. He holds a Masters in Computer Science from DePaul University and a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Valparaiso University, and has entrepreneurial experience from founding SALERNO & CO.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science, 3.7, Masters, Computer Science, 3.7 at DePaul University
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics at Valparaiso University
English