Gabriele Platania
Python Backend Developer at Bending Spoons
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolGabriele Platania is a seasoned Python backend developer based in Milan with 11 years crafting scalable web and mobile services, currently building backend systems at Bending Spoons. He has deep experience designing REST APIs, payment integrations and data-driven services across Django, Spring and MongoDB, and has shipped products used by large customers (e.g., work for norr.com). Comfortable across platforms from iOS/Android to server-side systems, he combines a strong academic foundation (MSc with honors) with a hands-on, test-driven approach honed at small studios and startups. Passionate about optimization and R&D, he pairs problem-solving grit with a maker’s background that includes founding a small game studio and shipping top-charting mobile apps. Outside work he pursues extreme sports and outdoor adventures, reflecting a taste for high-risk, high-focus challenges that also inform his engineering resilience.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree 110/110 with honors, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree 110/110 with honors, Computer Science at Università di Catania
Italian, English
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Github Skills (118)
rabbit10
redis10
pymongo10
mayan-edms9
sanic9
task-scheduler9
queue9
background-task9
pooling9
exposure9
python9
mongoengine9
amqp9
task-manager9
react9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bonsaistudio/django-image-tools
Jun 2014 - Dec 2015
A package to handle images in django
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 1 year 5 months
djangopythonhandleimage
xelhark/pyjo-mdl
Mar 2018 - Feb 2020
Model definition language for Pyjo
Contributions:4 PRs, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
pythondefinition
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