Geremia Taglialatela
Core Team Member at Font Awesome
Mondragone, Campania, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolGeremia Taglialatela is a seasoned Ruby on Rails engineer with 14 years of experience building full-stack web applications and scalable backend systems, currently contributing to Font Awesome and leading development at IFAD. He specializes in Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL and background processing with Sidekiq, and pairs that backend expertise with front-end skills in Bootstrap, ES6 and asset/tooling work (Webpack, SCSS). A prolific open-source contributor and maintainer, he has improved high-profile projects like ActiveAdmin, Bootstrap and Faker and maintains gems such as route_translator and client_side_validations to keep Rails apps internationalized and robust. He brings hands-on ops experience—Docker, nginx, Ansible and Heroku—for reliable deployments and monitoring in production. Based in Mondragone, Italy, he combines pragmatic engineering with attention to code quality (RuboCop, CI improvements) and a history of rescuing compatibility issues across major Rails upgrades. Notably, his contributions span both UI polish (icons, Bootstrap fixes) and deep backend fixes (date handling, validation logic), showing a rare full-stack maintenance mindset.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea breve in Scienze e Tecnologie Informatiche, Computer Science, Laurea breve in Scienze e Tecnologie Informatiche, Computer Science at Università di Pisa
Github Skills (41)
rubocop10
ruby-rails10
javascript10
facebook-api10
bootstrap10
back-end-development10
date-manipulation10
i18n-node10
testing10
css10
rspec10
sass10
responsive-design10
rails10
ui-design10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
enriclluelles/route_translator
Mar 2014 - Jan 2023
Translate your rails app route to various languages without the hassle
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 3 reviews, 614 commits in 9 years
Contributions summary:Geremia made several commits focused on improving the functionality and maintainability of the Rails application's routing. Contributions include fixing whitespace and tab inconsistencies, and enhancing the tests to prevent interference with the I18n.locale settings. The user also implemented changes to the action controller, adding support for locale configuration.
ruby-on-railsrails-apprailstranslationruby
DavyJonesLocker/client_side_validations
Aug 2014 - Jan 2023
Client Side Validations made easy for Ruby on Rails
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 854 commits, 294 PRs in 8 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Geremia primarily refactored the client-side validation library to support Rails 6.1 compatibility and other improvements. Their commits involved adapting the library to work seamlessly with Rails' form helpers and handling case-insensitive validation. The changes include modifying the JavaScript and Ruby code to align with Rails' internal changes and enhance the validation logic, while making sure it still functions correctly.
ruby-on-railsvalidationclient-siderailsvalidations
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