Franco Laiuppa
Principal Engineer at Definely
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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RockstarFranco Laiuppa is a Principal Engineer based in Prague with 13+ years of hands-on experience building resilient, high-performance full-stack systems using Node.js, TypeScript and React. He’s delivered event-driven architectures at scale—designing RabbitMQ-backed systems that process millions of daily messages—and improved critical product performance (search times from seconds to milliseconds) across startups and scale-ups. Franco blends backend, frontend and DevOps skills, having standardized CI/CD, containerized deployments and Linux operations while mentoring teams and leading cross-functional projects. He’s shipped security-sensitive login infrastructure at Auth0, launched a browser ML editor using WebAssembly at HASH, and repeatedly rescued neglected codebases into maintainable, production-ready systems. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic engineer who pairs deep technical optimism with operational rigor and a knack for squeezing dramatic performance gains from real-world constraints.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (55)
authentication10
hash10
simulation9
workspace9
graph9
tds9
modeling9
database9
rust8
type-system8
typescript8
data-management8
nodejs7
esprima7
ai7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
francolaiuppa/datafiller
Jan 2013 - Apr 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 1 push in 4 years 3 months
francolaiuppa/dotfiles
Oct 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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