Duccio Giovannelli
Head Of Engineering at Extendi
Scandicci, Tuscany, Italy
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolDuccio Giovannelli is a Head of Engineering with 13 years of experience building high-performance web and realtime systems, currently leading engineering at Commerce Layer. A pragmatic polyglot, he blends deep Ruby on Rails expertise with Elixir, Python, and modern cloud-native tooling like Kubernetes and ArgoCD to deliver scalable APIs and realtime data pipelines. He has run his own development consultancy, Extendi, for two decades, shipping consumer-facing Rails products and custom platforms while maintaining hands-on involvement in databases from MySQL and PostgreSQL to Cassandra and ElasticSearch. Duccio pairs strong systems and Unix knowledge with an interest in machine learning and realtime visualization (d3.js), enabling data-driven features at product scale. His background as a teacher and long-term small-business owner gives him a practical coaching style and a bias for clear, maintainable engineering. Based in Tuscany, he’s comfortable moving between architecture, implementation and operational concerns to ship reliable, production-grade software.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Università degli Studi di Firenze
Stackoverflow
149reputation
32kreached
4answers
1question
Github Skills (53)
searching10
search-interface10
authentication9
search-engine9
java9
sql9
activemodel9
oauth2-provider9
elastic8
elasticsearch8
oauth8
ruby-on-rails8
oauth2-server8
authorization8
rails8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
giovannelli/sunspot_stats
Jul 2012 - Dec 2013
Add the statsComponent to sunspot
Contributions:43 commits in 1 year 5 months
giovannelli/gnip-client
Jun 2015 - Nov 2020
A Ruby library for accessing the Gnip API
Contributions:57 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 6 months
apiruby-libraryruby
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.