Gian Contessa
Lead Software Engineer at Hedging Beta Ltd
Horsham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGian Contessa is a Lead Software Engineer with 8 years of professional experience building cloud-native systems and leading engineering teams across startups and large international organisations. He specialises in AWS architecture, CI/CD automation, and pragmatic AI integrations, having driven infrastructure migrations, IaC adoption and OpenAI-powered solutions for airlines, fintech and anti-scam initiatives. Comfortable balancing hands-on coding (Python, Java) with high-level architectural design, he often moves projects from urgent technical design to production implementation. As CTO of a digital services firm he designed a scalable API product and has been researching LLM augmentation and RAG to create practical, cost-effective knowledge assistants. His international background and cross-cultural team leadership help him blend startup agility with disciplined SDLC practices. A pragmatic problem-solver, he consistently documents risks and builds playbooks so teams can sustain long-term improvements after he moves on.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
three years degree, Information Technology, three years degree, Information Technology at Università degli Studi di Brescia
Italian, Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (64)
spring10
authentication10
spring-security10
java10
security10
spring-boot10
oauth10
grids9
user-guide9
charts9
bin-packing9
aws9
amazon9
react9
azure8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gmconte/tutorials
Sep 2018 - Feb 2020
The "REST With Spring" Course:
Contributions:44 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 5 months
spring-bootspringframeworkspring-mvcspringrest
gmconte/piwars_links
Aug 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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