Summary
Fabio Perrella is a pragmatic Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating scalable backend systems, currently building distributed services at Booking.com. He brings deep Ruby expertise from leading platform and high-throughput email projects at Locaweb and WeTransfer, and has broadened into Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Kafka and TypeScript in large-scale production environments. Fabio cares deeply about maintainable code and developer productivity, and actively shares knowledge through pair programming, code reviews, talks and blog writing. He has led teams through complex migrations and real-time challenges—such as moving legacy hosting systems and building SMTP-as-a-service—demonstrating a steady hand on both architecture and delivery. Based in Amsterdam with a background in computer engineering from USP, he combines pragmatic engineering with a continuous-learning mindset evident in cross-stack work from Perl and PHP to modern cloud-native tooling.
11 years of coding experience