Andrea Mazzoleni
Senior Principal Development Engineer at Thales Digital Identity and Security (ex Gemalto)
Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolAndrea Mazzoleni is a Senior Principal Development Engineer with 24 years of hands-on experience building maintainable, high-performance software, currently leading development efforts at Thales Digital Identity and Security. He champions software craftsmanship—prioritizing testability, scalability, and long-term cost-efficiency—while remaining deeply involved in code and architecture. His background spans embedded and security-focused products across multiple companies, giving him strong domain expertise in secure systems and production-grade reliability. An active open-source contributor, he has improved performance and diagnostics for the SnapRAID backup project, demonstrating a pragmatic focus on I/O efficiency and robust logging. Educated at Politecnico di Milano, Andrea combines academic rigor with a practical, performance-first engineering mindset that favors longevity over quick fixes.
23 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Engineering, Master's Degree, Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Milano
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Github contributions (5)
amadvance/snapraid
Mar 2011 - Jan 2023
A backup program for disk arrays. It stores parity information of your data and it recovers from up to six disk failures
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 1992 commits, 18 PRs in 12 years
Contributions summary:Andrea made several code changes related to the SnapRAID backup program, primarily focused on improving the performance and functionality of the software. They modified existing code to enhance the efficiency of disk access and data processing, including optimizations for file handling and directory scanning. Furthermore, the user addressed warnings and improved the log messages to help in better understanding the program and debug potential issues.
diskarraysparityfailuressix
amadvance/advancecomp
Feb 2003 - Jan 2023
A collection of recompression utilities for your .ZIP archives, .PNG snapshots, .MNG video clips and .GZ files
Contributions:9 releases, 125 commits, 6 PRs in 20 years 2 months
mngcompressionclipszipsnapshots
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