Federico Figus
Founding Engineer at Tracebit
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolFederico Figus is a founding engineer and senior software professional with 12 years of experience building secure, multi-platform systems using Python and C, alongside enterprise Java and JavaScript. He has led technical teams and shipped production-grade software across startups and scale-ups, including roles as Tech Lead at Tessian and Staff Engineer at Surfboard and Dialpad. His background spans secure coding, security libraries, big data modeling, and designing critical-environment applications, reflecting both deep technical skill and strong business acumen. Federico is an active open-source contributor who enhanced google/mtail’s VM and metrics capabilities—adding float64/string comparisons and histogram support—demonstrating a knack for improving observability tooling. Based in the UK, he combines hands-on systems work with strategic problem solving to consistently deliver pragmatic, auditable solutions. Colleagues describe him as a rapid problem solver who balances engineering rigor with product-minded thinking.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Perito Informatico Informatica, Perito Informatico Informatica at ITIS OthocaInformatica, Informatica at Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Italian, English, sardo
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Github Skills (16)
compiler10
compiler-compiler10
go10
bytecode10
vms10
metric10
testing9
time-series9
observability9
prometheus8
java6
socket6
python6
unicode6
encoding6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
google/mtail
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
extract internal monitoring data from application logs for collection in a timeseries database
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 5 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Federico contributed significantly to the `mtail` project, primarily focusing on enhancing the virtual machine (VM) component. Their work includes implementing support for float64 and string data types within the comparison logic, adding corresponding test cases, and correcting an existing test. Furthermore, they integrated a histogram feature, extending the metrics capabilities by allowing bucket definitions and associated calculations within the codebase. This suggests an emphasis on improving data processing capabilities and metric generation.
extractionunicornsproxyuidpromql
hephex/asyncache
Nov 2018 - Nov 2022
Helpers to use cachetools with async functions
Contributions:47 commits, 13 PRs, 42 pushes in 4 years 1 month
async-functionshelperscacheasync
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