Domenico Ferraro
Software Engineer at Amazon
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolDomenico Ferraro is a software engineer based in Madrid with a decade of experience and a current role at Amazon after leading engineering efforts at Aucta Cognitio. He has a strong background in designing and refactoring distributed Java microservices, improving reliability and testing coverage while shipping customer-facing REST APIs and modular front-end features. Domenico has driven significant performance gains—owning MySQL scaling and backup strategies that yielded a 70% improvement—and created developer tools that saved his team substantial weekly hours. A maintainer of the Tiling Shell on GitHub, he combines production-grade systems thinking with open-source curiosity. He holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Science from the Università di Pisa and completed an Erasmus exchange at University College Dublin.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
School-leaving qualification Information and Communication Technology (ICT), School-leaving qualification Information and Communication Technology (ICT) at ITIS Guido DoneganiBachelor's degree / Erasmus Exchange Program Computer Science, Bachelor's degree / Erasmus Exchange Program Computer Science at University College DublinMaster's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at Università di Pisa
English, Italian
Github Skills (22)
tiling10
gnome10
gestures9
linux8
windows7
ux-design6
macos5
grid5
snap5
crossword4
color-picker4
electron4
desktop4
cross-platform4
gsettings2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
domferr/tilingshell
Feb 2024 - Apr 2025
Extend Gnome Shell with advanced tiling window management. Supports multiple monitors, Windows 11 Snap Assistant, Fancy Zones, customised tiling layouts and more.
Contributions:23 releases, 8 reviews, 23 PRs in 1 year 1 month
fancyzonesgnomegnome-extensiongnome-shell-extensiontiling
domferr/Linux-PowerToys
Jul 2023 - Nov 2024
Get Microsoft's PowerToys utilities and much more to Linux world!
Contributions:5 releases, 51 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
color-pickerfancyzonesgnomelinuxpowertoys
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