Andrea Crotti
Senior Software Engineer at Schroders
Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndrea Crotti is a senior software engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience building backend systems across finance, cloud, and startup environments, currently focused on LLMs and Python. He has deep expertise in Clojure and Python, a track record of shipping pragmatic, maintainable code, and experience spanning full-stack, DevOps, and data pipelines. Andrea has driven migrations, deployment pipelines, and resilient microservices at companies like Funding Circle, iwoca and Docker, and contributes to open-source projects such as Pelican and a long-standing yasnippet snippets collection. Colleagues rely on him to turn ambiguous problems into shipping features—he values getting things done without sacrificing code quality. Based in Milton Keynes, he pairs academic training in embedded systems with a practical, language-agnostic approach to designing robust architectures.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
computer science master embedded systems, computer science master embedded systems at Università di Trentomaster embedded systems, master embedded systems at RWTH Aachen University
Italian, English, French, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (21)
python10
setuptools10
emacs-lisp10
argparse10
emacs10
static-site-generator9
oop9
jinja28
markdown7
markdown-it7
logging6
documentation6
grammar6
stdout6
windows6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
AndreaCrotti/yasnippet-snippets
Aug 2010 - Jul 2022
a collection of yasnippet snippets for many languages
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 507 commits in 12 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Andrea primarily worked on enhancing and maintaining Emacs Lisp snippets for the yasnippet package. Their contributions involved modifying existing snippets, adding new ones from other contributors, and addressing bugs related to snippet extensions and file organization. They also added missing modelines and keys, and overall, worked on improving the structure and functionality of the yasnippet snippets repository.
yasnippetemacsemacs-lisp
getpelican/pelican
Mar 2012 - Mar 2012
Static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax. Powered by Python.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:23 commits in 15 days
Contributions summary:Andrea primarily contributed to the project by refactoring and restructuring the codebase, adding functionality to the build process, and improving the overall code quality. They addressed dependency management issues with the use of `argparse`, restructured scripts using `setuptools`, removed unused imports and code, and improved the documentation. They also fixed print statements and refactored the ANSI dictionary.
markdownpythonstatic-site-generatorpelican
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