Emilio Cecchini
Software Engineer at Extendi
Florence, Tuscany, Italy
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Top SchoolEmilio Cecchini is a backend software engineer based in Florence with 8 years of experience specializing in software design, performance optimization, and big data manipulation. He builds and maintains production systems for data-intensive applications, currently contributing to Pulsarplatform—an audience intelligence tool that mines and summarizes social media at scale. His background includes cybersecurity product work and practical OCR library development using Python, OpenCV, Tesseract and Google Cloud Vision. An active open-source contributor, he has improved the popular Python data generator Mimesis by adding Italy-specific providers, locale-aware features, and refactoring for robustness. Strong academic credentials (BSc and MSc, both 110 cum laude) complement his hands-on engineering and test-driven approach.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Maturità scientifica, 80/100, Maturità scientifica, 80/100 at Liceo Scientifico Leonardo da VinciBachelor's degree, Computer Science, 110 cum laude, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 110 cum laude at Università degli Studi di Firenze
Italian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
data-generation10
python10
pathlib9
generator8
pandas8
testing8
data-science8
pytest8
clang6
python-tesseract6
clang-format6
tesseract6
pytesser6
ubuntu6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lk-geimfari/mimesis
Feb 2019 - Dec 2019
Mimesis is a robust data generator for Python that can produce a wide range of fake data in multiple languages.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 21 PRs, 64 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Emilio primarily contributes to the Python-based data generation library, `mimesis`. Their work includes refactoring code, specifically the Path data provider to use pathlib. They also removed unused functions and updated the CHANGELOG. The user added support for custom templates and corrected tests to ensure proper functionality. Further contributions include adding a new provider for Italy, and implementing locale support for currency and address features.
json-generatordatapythonfakermock
sinecode/MeanShift
Nov 2018 - Jul 2022
Contributions:40 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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