Andrea Cedraro
Senior Software Engineer at HCL Software
Pomezia, Lazio, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrea Cedraro is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience focused on the BigFix platform at HCL/IBM, blending deep backend expertise with practical full-stack contributions. Based in Pomezia, Italy, he has a strong academic foundation in computer engineering (Laurea Magistrale) and a track record of improving performance and maintainability in widely used developer tools. His open-source work includes meaningful refactors and feature additions to prominent projects like vim-plug and YouCompleteMe/ycmd, where he improved plugin efficiency, preview and directory handling, and enhanced code-completion server reliability and logging. Comfortable across C/Python/Vimscript boundaries, he brings a pragmatic engineering style that favors careful refactoring, observability, and cache-aware optimizations.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea triennale, Ingegneria informatica, 105/110, Laurea triennale, Ingegneria informatica, 105/110 at Università degli Studi di Roma Tre
Italian, English
Github Skills (14)
plugin-development10
vim10
code-analysis10
code-completion10
python10
vimscript10
typescript-types9
editor9
typescript9
typescripts9
git9
editors9
algorithm4
algorithms4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ycm-core/ycmd
Nov 2014 - Apr 2017
A code-completion & code-comprehension server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:76 commits, 40 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Andrea made several contributions related to the code-completion and code-comprehension server. Their work involved modifications to the codebase, including parameter reordering, variable renaming, and the addition of features like subserver readiness checks. The user also worked on enabling and configuring logging for the TSServer component, enhancing the debugging capabilities of the system. Furthermore, the user refactored code and introduced improvements to the python completer.
code-completioncomprehensionsemantic-enginecode-analysiseditor
junegunn/vim-plug
Jan 2015 - Aug 2017
:hibiscus: Minimalist Vim Plugin Manager
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:158 comments, 3 issues in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Andrea primarily focused on refactoring and improving the codebase of the Vim plugin manager. They replaced a return value in a function, refactored an existing function (`s:add`), and inlined a function call for efficiency. Additionally, the user made improvements related to the preview functionality and directory management.
vimminimalisthibiscusvim-pluginneovim
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