Andrea Suisani
Software Developer at Freelance
Italy
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolAndrea Suisani is a seasoned software developer and statistician with 13+ years of experience building and leading the development of survey systems (CATI/CAWI) and related infrastructure. For nearly two decades he was lead developer at Demetra, where he designed, implemented and administered homegrown products like yaacs and contributed to mod_survey, spanning coding, DBA and sysadmin responsibilities. His technical toolkit ranges from Tcl/Tk, Ruby, Python and C to PostgreSQL, Linux administration and VoIP (Asterisk), and he pairs that with statistical expertise in R, SPSS and SAS to run survey projects end-to-end. As a backend contributor to Bitcoin Unlimited, he has also applied low-level debugging and memory-safety fixes in a high-stakes open-source blockchain codebase, demonstrating attention to stability and concurrency. Now freelance, he combines deep domain knowledge in survey methodology with pragmatic full-stack and operations experience, making him effective at delivering reliable, data-driven systems.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor degree of Science: Statistics and Demography, Statistics, Demography, Bachelor degree of Science: Statistics and Demography, Statistics, Demography at Università degli Studi di PadovaITIS "E. Barsanti"
Italian, English
Github Skills (7)
debugging10
debug10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
blockchain10
code-formatting9
multithreading9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
BitcoinUnlimited/BitcoinUnlimited
Feb 2017 - Apr 2022
Bitcoin Unlimited continues on gitlab see https://gitlab.com/bitcoinunlimited/BCHUnlimited
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 660 commits, 571 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Andrea primarily contributed to the Bitcoin Unlimited codebase through bug fixes and performance improvements. They addressed an issue in thinblock.cpp related to transaction handling and implemented fixes for memory access in a variety of source files, specifically addressing warnings related to potential thread safety and memory corruption issues. These commits suggest a focus on improving stability and efficiency within the core blockchain functionality. They also made code style and formatting improvements to meet project coding standards.
unlimitedgitlabbitcoinbitcoin-unlimited
BitcoinUnlimited/cashnodes-frontend
Feb 2018 - Dec 2021
Cash nodes front-end
Contributions:58 PRs, 43 pushes, 16 branches in 3 years 10 months
cashjavascriptfront-endnodes
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