Francesco Gastaldello
Senior Data Engineer
Padua, Veneto, Italy
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Top SchoolFrancesco Gastaldello is a Senior Data Engineer based in Padua with 11 years of experience building production-grade data platforms and analytics solutions across cloud environments. He has designed Lakehouse and warehouse architectures using BigQuery, Delta on GCS, Dataproc, PySpark, Dataform and Looker, and driven ML-friendly pipelines and event-driven systems for recommendation engines. A pragmatic tech lead, he blends hands-on engineering, team enablement and process automation—from CI/CD and test automation to ELT and observability—helping teams ship reliable data products. His background in bioinformatics and contributions to the well-known Biopython project highlight a strong foundation in scientific data workflows and test-driven code quality.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Bionformatics, Bachelor of Science Bionformatics at Università degli Studi di VeronaData Engineering Computer Science, Data Engineering Computer Science at UdacityMSc Drug Discovery, MSc Drug Discovery at University of Surrey
Italian, English
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Github Skills (6)
bioinformatics10
biopython10
python10
test-automation10
testing10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
biopython/biopython
Feb 2017 - May 2018
Official git repository for Biopython (originally converted from CVS)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:50 commits, 63 PRs, 192 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Francesco primarily contributed to the Biopython project by refactoring code and improving the test suite. They removed unused code blocks and moved self-tests from individual modules into the testing framework. This included moving self-tests for several modules, such as `Vector`, `Superimposer`, and `PDBParser`, into the appropriate test files. Additionally, they updated and extended tests, such as those for the KEGG Enzyme module, to increase overall coverage and improve the reliability of the Biopython library.
git-repositoryphylogeneticspythondnagenomics
Gasta88/biopython
Mar 2017 - Nov 2018
Official git repository for Biopython (converted from CVS)
Contributions:2 PRs, 223 pushes, 59 branches in 1 year 8 months
git-repositorypythoncondabiocondaplacement
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