Giordano Piazza
Engineering Lead at GitKraken
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolGiordano Piazza is an engineering lead and self-taught full‑stack developer and designer with 13 years of professional experience, now based in Barcelona. He blends product-facing front-end craftsmanship with back-end systems knowledge, having led frontend teams at GitKraken and shaped visual strategy as Head of Frontend & Art Director at Gigapipe. His career began in interactive design in 2001, giving him deep expertise in motion graphics, video editing and brand work for clients like IKEA, Hugo Boss and Playmobil—skills that inform his pragmatic, UX-aware engineering decisions. Comfortable switching between hands-on implementation and team leadership, he has a track record of shipping polished, interactive experiences across startups and agencies. Known for being a "2-hit combo" developer/designer, he brings a rare synthesis of aesthetic judgment and engineering rigor to product development.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Self taught
Italian, English, Spanish, Catalan
Stackoverflow
1,674reputation
597kreached
23answers
4questions
javascript
top-5%
html
top-5%
Github Skills (107)
slideshow10
jquery10
slide10
snap10
mousewheel10
scrolling10
fullscreen10
javascript9
testcafe9
html9
e2e9
activation8
browser8
test-framework8
css8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gyopiazza/football-engine
Jan 2021 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 9 months
gyopiazza/holygrid
Oct 2015 - Dec 2023
A modern, flexible and semantic grid system for SCSS.
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 8 years 3 months
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