Andrea Grandi
Software Engineer at laterpay
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrea Grandi is a Staff Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building high-performance C/C++ systems and scalable backend services, now based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has deep expertise across networking and edge platforms from Intel to Google, owning low-level Linux drivers, SDKs, and hardware-software interfaces while leading geo-distributed teams and SDLC/security practices. Andrea pairs strong applied mathematics and computer vision experience with practical web and scripting skills (Python, Go, JS), enabling him to move between kernel drivers, cryptography offloads for OpenSSL, and Django backend contributions. He is an active open-source contributor—having enhanced Django REST Framework IP address validation and token management—and has collaborated with the OpenSSL community on async TLS improvements. Known for rapidly assimilating legacy codebases and introducing robust CI, ABI-aware workflows, and performance tuning, he thrives on optimizing real-world systems from silicon to cloud.
18 years of coding experience
Diploma, Diploma at Liceo Scientifico - Amedeo di Savoia Duca d'Aosta
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
935reputation
677kreached
9answers
13questions
docker
top-5%
Github Skills (17)
api-rest10
pytest10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
django10
rest-api10
back-end-development9
docker9
api9
shell6
bluehost6
cookie6
amazon-s36
http6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
encode/django-rest-framework
Mar 2015 - Aug 2017
Web APIs for Django. 🎸
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 17 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Andrea focused on enhancing the functionality of the Django REST Framework by implementing features related to IP address field validation and token creation. They added tests to ensure proper IPv4 and IPv6 address validation within the IPAddressField. Furthermore, the user contributed to the creation of a Django management command to generate and manage DRF user tokens, including options to reset tokens. Code changes involved both the fields and tests, demonstrating contributions to the framework's core functionality.
djangopythonapirest
andreagrandi/spotisoma
Jul 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year
pythonsomapython-scriptspotifymashup
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