Giovanni Giordano
Software Developer at Pillar
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolGiovanni Giordano is a Milan-based frontend software developer with over a decade of experience building digital communication products for startups and agencies. He moves fluidly between product-focused roles and hands-on UI engineering, shipping features, bug fixes and export/resizing UX improvements in high-profile open-source projects like Excalidraw. His career spans roles from web designer to product developer, giving him strong visual sensibilities alongside solid React and frontend architecture skills. Giovanni has a track record of improving user interactions (for example adding selection, escape-key behavior and export functionality to Excalidraw) and integrating external dependencies to accelerate delivery. Comfortable in fast-moving teams, he blends practical engineering with a designer’s attention to detail.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Web Design, Diploma Web Design at Centro Studi IlasSoftware e applicazioni multimediali, Software e applicazioni multimediali at Liceo Scientifico
English, Italian
Github Skills (7)
javascript10
react10
canvas10
ui-design9
collaboration7
diagram7
whiteboard7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
excalidraw/excalidraw
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:47 commits, 30 PRs, 151 pushes in 7 days
Contributions summary:Giovanni primarily contributed to the front-end implementation of the Excalidraw application. Their work focused on adding features such as element selection on click, resizing, and export functionality. They also addressed a bug related to clearing selections and made improvements to the user interface by including an escape key function. The user's contributions involved modifying core React components and integrating external dependencies.
diagramsdrawnhand-drawnproductivitycollaboration
giovannigiordano/next.js
Sep 2018 - Dec 2020
Next.js is a lightweight framework for static and server‑rendered applications.
Contributions:4 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
next-jsreactssgdev-serverserver-rendered
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