Denny Ferrassoli
Staff Software Engineer at Northrop Grumman
Palmdale, California, United States
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Top SchoolDenny Ferrassoli is a Staff Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building full-stack web and mobile systems for startups and large enterprises, currently based in Palmdale, CA and open to remote roles. He has a strong background in architecting scalable media processing and delivery platforms, real-time job processing, and distributed systems, with deep hands-on experience in Node.js, React, C#, RabbitMQ, SQL, and AWS. At Casting Networks he led flagship product development handling hundreds of gigabytes of media per day, and at Northrop Grumman he has progressed through principal engineering roles to staff-level technical leadership. An active contributor to open-source—improving DateTime handling and adding RabbitMQ integration for the popular Hangfire project—he blends careful backward-compatible fixes with practical integrations. Known for mentoring and teaching (including a stint as an App Academy instructor), he pairs product-minded engineering with a knack for improving developer tooling and CI/CD workflows.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Technology at University of PhoenixAssociate of Arts (AA), Information Technology, Associate of Arts (AA), Information Technology at ITT Technical Institute
Portuguese, Spanish
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Github Skills (23)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
HangfireIO/Hangfire
May 2014 - Feb 2015
An easy way to perform background job processing in .NET and .NET Core applications. No Windows Service or separate process required
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Denny focused on improving the handling of DateTime arguments within the Hangfire background job processing system. They addressed a specific issue with millisecond resolution during argument conversion, ensuring backwards compatibility and accuracy. The contributions also included implementing and testing RabbitMQ integration, adding the RabbitMQ configuration and necessary project adjustments, and resolving concurrency issues.
dotnetwindowsbackground-jobsseparatewindows-service
dennyferra/TypeWatch
Jan 2012 - May 2022
A jquery plugin to determine when a user has stopped typing in a text field.
Contributions:6 releases, 30 commits, 10 PRs in 10 years 5 months
jqueryjavascriptfieldjquery-plugintext-field
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