Domenico Ferrari
Senior Software Engineer at Zucchetti
Lombardy, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolDomenico Ferrari is a Senior Software Engineer with 13+ years of experience building cross-platform systems and compilers, currently driving runtime and compiler work at Zucchetti. Deeply rooted in the Linux and open-source world since the 1990s, he brings low-level C expertise across Windows, Linux and IBM platforms and a proven track record optimizing PDF generation (notably contributing font/table improvements to the popular libharu library). He has led small engineering teams, designed language tooling that translates a COBOL-like language to COBOL, and implemented cross-OS integration layers and single-sign-on solutions. Comfortable across C/C++, PHP, Python, Java and many legacy languages and OSs, he pairs broad language fluency with meticulous troubleshooting and build/versioning skills. At home he prototypes IoT and embedded projects (Arduino, ESP8266, Raspberry Pi), reflecting a practical hardware-software blend that informs his systems work.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering at Università di Pavia
Italian, English
Github Skills (12)
c1710
font-face10
fonts10
c1110
data-structure9
data-structures9
algorithms8
code-optimization8
numerical-optimization8
algorithm8
optimization8
optimisation8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
libharu/libharu
Oct 2012 - Mar 2015
libharu - free PDF library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Domenico primarily contributed to the `libharu` PDF library by optimizing and correcting aspects of font handling and data writing. They focused on reducing file size through table optimizations, such as rewriting the "post" table and writing zero values for unused glyphs in the hmtx table. Additionally, the user introduced a new object type, HPDF_Direct, for writing byte streams directly, and corrected a bug in hmtx table generation. These changes suggest expertise in low-level PDF manipulation and optimization.
pdfpdf-librarypdfiumpdf-generationpdf-document
domfe/libharu
Mar 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:14 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 2 months
pdfpdf-librarypdf-generation
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