Gianluca Cacace
Principal Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolGianluca Cacace is a Principal Software Development Engineer with 13 years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, currently leading engineering efforts on AWS CloudWatch from Dublin. He combines hands-on implementation on critical paths with a long-term architectural view, influencing teams to adopt best practices in code and system design. His background spans backend services, real-time high-traffic web platforms and mobile (notably an open-source Android signature pad), reflecting strong cross-stack fluency. At AWS he progressed through successive senior roles, demonstrating sustained impact on observability and reliability at cloud scale. He is comfortable bridging product and infrastructure concerns, mentoring peers while still contributing code to production systems. An Italian-trained computer engineer, he brings practical experience integrating legacy systems, messaging and batch processing into modern cloud-native architectures.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Liceo Scientifico di Napoli "N. Copernico"Master's degree Computer Engineering, Master's degree Computer Engineering at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Italian, English
Github Skills (14)
custom-ui10
javas10
imagebitmap10
ui-customization10
custom-view10
bitmap10
bitmaps10
bit-manipulation10
customisation10
android-development10
java10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
gcacace/android-signaturepad
Mar 2014 - Mar 2020
A custom Android View for drawing smooth signatures
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:56 commits, 34 PRs, 56 pushes in 6 years
Contributions summary:Gianluca primarily contributed to the development of a custom Android View for signature input. Their commits added functionality to set a signature bitmap, refactored existing code for improved clarity and maintainability, and implemented features like setting properties (pen color, width) through setters. The user also addressed a specific issue to close #20 and #28 related to view functionalities.
signaturesandroid-custom-viewsignature-padsignatureandroid-library
gcacace/android-socialbuttons
May 2013 - Aug 2013
Contributions:11 commits in 3 months
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