Dre Cadeddu
Director Of Software Development at Summit (formerly Deft)
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolDre Cadeddu is a Director of Software Development based in the Greater Chicago Area with 12 years of experience building cloud-native, serverless systems and leading engineering teams. He combines deep hands-on expertise in AWS Serverless, Node.js, Python, Java, Docker and Kubernetes with front-end skills in Angular and React to deliver full-stack, production-grade solutions. His career moves from academic research and a PhD in Physical Chemistry into industry leadership—highlighting a rare blend of scientific rigor and practical software architecture. Dre has progressed through technical leadership roles at Summit (formerly Deft), Showpad, RoomIt, and Hyatt, often owning architecture and migration efforts for modern platforms. Curious and polyglot by nature, he explores functional languages like Clojure and Haskell and brings automation practices with Ansible to operationalize teams. Colleagues describe him as a self-assembling problem solver who translates complex requirements into pragmatic engineering roadmaps.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
erasmus chemistry, erasmus chemistry at Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physical Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physical Chemistry at Université de Strasbourgmaster Material Science, master Material Science at Università degli Studi di Cagliaribachelor Material Science, bachelor Material Science at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
English, French, Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (144)
flask10
markdown10
formatter10
yaml10
lambda10
json10
css10
printer10
sam10
serverless-application-model9
javascript9
dynamodb9
serverless-applications9
angular9
data-visualization9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
deddu/.emacs.d
Aug 2015 - Jun 2022
Contributions:50 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 10 months
deddu/nyxt-docker
Jul 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:5 releases, 20 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year
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