Gabriele Calarota
Software Engineer at Bending Spoons
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolGabriele Calarota is a backend software engineer with nine years' experience, currently building the Meetup team's services at Bending Spoons from Madrid. He combines startup grit—co-founding SquisEat and owning infrastructure, monitoring, and scaling—with product-focused leadership as a former Multichannel Technical Lead at UnipolRental. Academically rigorous (double degrees and a master’s with highest honors from Bologna), he delivers robust APIs and backend systems, including ML-backed Flask services and Android-enabled platforms. An active open-source contributor, he’s worked on the popular InstaPy project improving Instagram API integration, user validation, and targeting logic. Comfortable across cloud services, databases and automated processes, he brings both hands-on implementation and a strategic view of user-facing digital products.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of BolognaDoble Grado, Matematica Informatica, Doble Grado, Matematica Informatica at Universidad Complutense de Madrid
English, Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (12)
graphql10
automation10
automations10
api10
selenium-ide10
instagram10
selenium10
python10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
apidoc10
webscraping9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
InstaPy/InstaPy
Apr 2018 - Sep 2018
📷 Instagram Bot - Tool for automated Instagram interactions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 3 PRs, 61 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Gabriele primarily focused on updating and maintaining the Instagram bot's back-end functionalities, particularly regarding the Instagram API and user validation. They modified the API queries for retrieving followers and following information, implementing changes related to syntax and result limitations. The user also added features like relationship bounds and business account filtering, indicating a focus on improving the bot's operational logic and user targeting capabilities. These contributions demonstrate a strong understanding of the project's core functionality and how it interacts with the Instagram platform.
scriptpythonbotautomationclarifai
GabrieleCalarota/SpaceJet
Jun 2019 - Jan 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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