Edmondo Porcu
Staff Software Engineer at Pinterest
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEdmondo Porcu is a Staff Software Engineer in New York with 13 years of experience building cloud-native data and infrastructure platforms across fintech, lending, and biotech. He blends hands-on systems programming in Rust, Go and Python with large-scale data engineering, Kubernetes, AWS and Terraform-driven IaC to deliver reliable, event-driven services and near real-time integrations. As a former CTO and Distinguished Engineer, he has led teams from early-stage startups to enterprise banks, scaling platforms that processed billions in lending and modernized legacy pipelines onto Databricks. He contributes to open-source data tooling—work on Apache DataFusion shows a practical focus on SQL engine internals and robust testing. Known for pragmatic leadership, he pairs FinOps awareness with deep technical ownership and a surprising self-deprecating note about weak bash skills. His background in ECE and an MBA informs a product-minded approach to solving complex infrastructure and data problems.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master Business Administration, Master Business Administration at Collège des IngénieursMaster of Science - MS (Joint program with University of Illinois) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS (Joint program with University of Illinois) Electrical and Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Torino
Italian, English, French
Github Skills (10)
fusion10
query-engine10
rust10
arrow-keys10
sql10
arrows10
arrow-js10
big-data9
dataframes8
dataframe8
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
apache/datafusion
May 2023 - Mar 2025
Apache DataFusion SQL Query Engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:77 reviews, 21 PRs, 213 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Edmondo primarily contributed to the implementation and testing of the `array_union` SQL function, focusing on its functionality and integration within the `datafusion` query engine. Their work involved modifying the `datafusion/physical-expr/src/array_expressions.rs` file, along with other files related to built-in functions, logical plans, and protobuf definitions. The user also made contributions to refactoring and test case management to ensure functionality of array aggregations. The user also extended join fuzz tests to support join filtering.
querypythonquery-enginedataframerust
edmondop/arroyo
May 2023 - Oct 2023
Distributed stream processing engine in Rust
Contributions:3 PRs, 179 pushes, 12 branches in 5 months
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