Cristiano Betta
Founder & Chief Product Officer at Gr4vy, Inc
Greenwich, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCristiano Betta is a founder and product leader with 17 years of experience blending developer relations, web development, and UX to ship developer-first platforms and documentation. As Founder & Chief Product Officer at Gr4vy he champions cloud-native payment orchestration, and previously scaled Developer Experience at Box where he led API design standards and bilingual documentation efforts. He pairs hands-on engineering—contributions to the Vonage Node.js SDK and past backend work—with strategic DX consulting for clients like Spotify, PayPal, and Cloudinary. Cristiano founded multiple startups and community initiatives (Geeks of London), showing a knack for turning grassroots events and prototypes into product and business outcomes. He brings a rare mix of product strategy, API architecture, and educational technology sensibility that helps reduce developer friction across entire platforms. Based in Greenwich, England, he combines technical depth with a practical focus on teaching and tooling that accelerates developer success.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at Delft University of Technology
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
api-rest10
javascript10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
api10
rest-api10
nodejs10
messaging8
sms7
voice7
sms-messages7
hash6
inspect6
emberjs6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Vonage/vonage-node-sdk
May 2016 - Mar 2017
Vonage API client for Node.js. API support for SMS, Voice, Text-to-Speech, Numbers, Verify (2FA) and more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / API Developer
Back-end Developer / API DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 59 commits, 41 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Cristiano primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of the Vonage Node.js SDK, focusing on API interactions. Their work involved fixing incorrect path appending, adding new API calls like `getApplications()` and `getPhonePricing()`, and implementing CRUD operations for the App Beta API. They also made improvements to the code by declaring variables and adding URL encoding for parameters.
developer-destinationnexmovoice-to-textserver-sdktwo-factor-authentication
gr4vy/gr4vy-ios
Jan 2022 - Dec 2024
Quickly embed Gr4vy in your iOS app to store card details, authorize payments, and capture a transaction.
Contributions:11 reviews, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 2 years 11 months
paymentsorchestrationios-appios11in-app-purchase
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