Davide Cerbo
Team Lead - R&D Manager at DevDay
Campania, Italy
Summary
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RockstarDavide Cerbo is a seasoned software leader and R&D manager with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, Java-based platforms and leading distributed teams across time zones from Campania, Italy. He currently leads an international Hyland R&D team delivering a low-code application platform built on the popular open-source Activiti BPM engine, blending hands-on engineering with people management and product ownership. His background spans architecture and platform roles—migration of enterprise search from Solr to Elasticsearch, cloud deployments with Kubernetes/Docker, and event-driven systems using Kafka and CosmosDB. An active open-source contributor to Activiti, he has deep expertise in workflow/process engines and has directly enhanced core engine APIs and persistence behavior. Outside work he champions developer communities as long-time community manager of DevDay, reflecting a passion for mentoring and networked learning.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
363reputation
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Github Skills (22)
business-process10
java10
javas10
bpmn10
spring-boot10
activiti10
apidoc9
sql9
api9
testing8
microservices-application7
microservices7
eclipse6
confluent-platform6
wildfly6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Activiti/Activiti
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
Activiti is a light-weight workflow and Business Process Management (BPM) Platform targeted at business people, developers and system admins. Its core is a super-fast and rock-solid BPMN 2 process engine for Java. It's open-source and distributed under the Apache license. Activiti runs in any Java application, on a server, on a cluster or in the cloud. It integrates perfectly with Spring, it is extremely lightweight and based on simple concepts.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 16 commits, 22 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Davide primarily focused on enhancing the Activiti BPM platform by implementing features related to task management and process instance handling. They added support for business keys, including their retrieval and storage within tasks and historic task instances. The user's work involved modifications to core engine components, API implementations, and database schema updates. They also contributed to test cases, ensuring the correct behavior of the new functionalities.
business-process-managementprocess-managementactivition-serverjava-application
devdayit/devday
Nov 2015 - Jan 2020
DevDay's website
Contributions:1 release, 46 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years 3 months
reactnextjsdevday
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