Andrea Valla
Solution Architect And Backend Developer at BrandsDistribution Group - IDT S.p.A.
Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrea Valla is a Solution Architect and Backend Developer with 13 years of experience designing and delivering scalable enterprise web applications, now leading architecture and backend efforts at BrandsDistribution Group. A self-taught, full-stack engineer who co-founded Industrial Cloud and built an industry MES (Agile Factory) with Node.js, MQTT, React, Apollo and MongoDB, he blends product-minded engineering with hands-on implementation. Comfortable across the stack, he moves from analysis and system design to testing and deployment, and has a long Linux pedigree dating back to 1995 that informs his command-line fluency and DevOps instincts. He contributes to open-source front-end work—such as adding a dynamic harvest counter to the popular Sunflower Land project—bringing pragmatic performance improvements and thoughtful UX touches. Known for continuous learning, he pairs modern frameworks with proven backend patterns to solve manufacturing and enterprise challenges.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Self-taught
English, German
Stackoverflow
570reputation
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18answers
7questions
Github Skills (16)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types10
state-management9
debouncing8
ubuntu6
elasticsearch6
asp-net6
asp-net-mvc6
react-native6
python6
asp-net-identity6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
sunflower-land/sunflower-land
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 5 commits, 7 PRs in 6 days
Contributions summary:Andrea primarily contributed to the front-end, implementing a harvestable counter on the favicon. They added a context provider and integrated the Tinycon library to display a dynamic counter reflecting the number of harvestable items. Further commits refactored the logic to check the state for harvestable fields and debounced the update function to improve performance and address initial load issues. They also modified components like `Field`, `Soil` and `AppIconProvider` to ensure the counter updates accurately.
avalla/avalla.github.io
Mar 2021 - Dec 2025
My resume
Contributions:3 PRs, 36 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 10 months
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