Andrea Salicetti
Staff Software Engineer at Findem
Monte San Pietro, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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Top SchoolAndrea Salicetti is a Staff Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building and scaling full-vertical web platforms from persistence to frontend and cloud. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Ruby on Rails, Elixir, PostgreSQL/Aurora, OpenSearch/Algolia and AWS with a pragmatic focus on reliability, observability and CI/CD. Andrea has driven migrations from monoliths to microservices, improved APDEX under heavy load, and architected high-concurrency message-oriented systems while mentoring distributed teams. He brings practical experience in large-scale web scraping, geospatial search (PostGIS), and automating workflows with AI for product growth and operational efficiency. An advocate of TDD, knowledge sharing and healthy engineering culture, he contributes to open source and continuously modernizes tech stacks to reduce technical debt. Based in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, he blends systems-level thinking with a product-minded approach to deliver sustainable engineering outcomes.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di BolognaHigh School, High School at Liceo Scientifico Statale Augusto Righi
English, Italian, German
Stackoverflow
2,473reputation
135kreached
68answers
11questions
ruby-on-rails
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
eager-loading10
mvc10
ruby10
kill10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
javascript10
jquery10
select210
html10
versioning10
rails10
selector10
scrolling10
searching10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
knightq/paperclip-smusher
Feb 2012 - Jun 2012
Contributions:10 commits in 4 months
image-uploadcompressionimagepaperclip
knightq/jquery-ui-themes-rails
May 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches, 3 tags in 4 months
rails-asset-pipelinedrop-inpipelinejqueryrails
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