Enrico Benini
Software Engineer at commercetools
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolEnrico Benini is a pragmatic software engineer with 12 years of experience building resilient, cloud-native backend systems from startups to enterprise teams, now based in London. He specializes in functional and reactive Scala architectures, leveraging the Typelevel stack (cats, cats-effect, fs2) and service contracts with Smithy/Smithy4s to deliver type-safe, production-grade microservices. Enrico has deep operational experience—designing CI/CD, observability, and on-call practices—and has improved build/deployment infrastructure for prominent open-source projects like typelevel/cats by modernizing their Nix/SBT toolchain. His background spans event-driven systems (Kinesis, Kafka), multi-region availability, and strict privacy/data-deletion domains, reflecting a strong focus on reliable data handling. Comfortable across AWS, DynamoDB/Postgres, and containerized environments, he pairs rigorous testing and TDD with a developer-first DevOps mindset.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Engineering, Master's degree Computer Engineering at Ingegneria e Scienze InformaticheABACUS Project, ABACUS Project at ITIS B.PascalBachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Seconda Facolta di Ingegneria
English
Github Skills (9)
sbt10
nix10
build-automation10
cicd9
scala8
githubaction-workflow7
github-ci7
jekyll6
ruby6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
typelevel/cats
Aug 2020 - Mar 2022
Lightweight, modular, and extensible library for functional programming.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Build Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Build EngineerContributions:14 reviews, 71 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Enrico primarily focused on improving the build and deployment infrastructure of the project. They upgraded the Nix environment used for building the microsite, ensuring the correct versions of dependencies like Jekyll and Ruby were used. Additionally, the user updated build configurations, specifically modifying SBT plugins and build settings. Furthermore, they updated the Nix package version.
functional-programming
benkio/edxCourse_Programming_in_FSharp
Oct 2015 - Jan 2022
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
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