Simone Basso
Engineering Manager at Gorgias
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolSimone Basso is an Engineering Manager based in Turin with 10 years of experience leading product-focused engineering teams across e-commerce and fintech. Currently at Gorgias, he helps scale customer support automation used by thousands of merchants, after technical lead roles at Casavo and Oval Money and a prior CTO role at Maieutical Labs. He is a hands-on leader who contributes to open-source—most notably enhancing testing, security pre-commit hooks with Bandit, and template inheritance in the widely used cookiecutter project—and has improved front-end maintainability and UX in projects like flowtime.js and an AngularJS PDF directive. Known for an obsessive focus on code quality, test isolation and pragmatic tooling, he pairs technical rigor with product sensibility and a computational science background from Università di Torino.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Scienza computazionale, Scienza computazionale at Università degli Studi di Torino
Italian, English
Github Skills (19)
pdf-js10
javascript10
pytest10
python10
testing10
css10
codelist10
cookiecutter10
javascripts10
lint10
angularjs10
linting10
git9
ci-cd9
html59
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
sayanee/angularjs-pdf
Nov 2015 - May 2017
:page_facing_up: An AngularJS directive <ng-pdf> to display PDF files with PDFJS
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 14 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Simone primarily contributed to the AngularJS PDF directive, fixing existing issues and adding new features. Their work focused on adding default values for canvas IDs, scaling PDF content, and implementing page-fitting functionality. They also updated the documentation and added examples, indicating a focus on improving usability and user experience.
pdfpdfjsdirectiveangularjsangular
cookiecutter/cookiecutter
Jan 2021 - Jun 2021
A cross-platform command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates), e.g. Python package projects, C projects.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & QA Engineer
DevOps Engineer & QA EngineerContributions:41 reviews, 22 commits, 22 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Simone contributed to enhancing the project's testing infrastructure and ensuring code quality. They implemented a pre-commit hook with Bandit for security checks, enabling automated code analysis. They also focused on improving test isolation by setting up a temporary filesystem environment and added branch coverage to the tests. Additionally, they added a feature for template inheritance, expanding flexibility in the project's template system.
cliproject-templatespythoncommand-line-utilitydeveloper-tools
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