Giovanni Zotta
Software Engineer I at Booking.com
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolGiovanni Zotta is a software engineer with 10 years of experience, currently contributing to Booking.com’s Fintech organization after driving warehouse systems modernization at Picnic Technologies. He holds an MSc in Computer Science with a specialization in distributed systems and tutored algorithms and data structures at Università di Trento, where he also guided projects like distributed hash tables and concurrent commit simulations. At Picnic he led a 200+ workday cross-team effort that boosted an automated warehouse’s capacity by 15% and routinely took charge of critical production incident mitigation and investigation. Comfortable across Java, Spring, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ and Python, he focuses on modularizing monoliths into microservices while keeping operational resilience front and center. Colleagues describe him as someone who blends algorithmic rigor with pragmatic, impact-driven engineering.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 110/110 with honours (29.8/30), Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 110/110 with honours (29.8/30) at Università di Trento
Github Skills (64)
peer10
ln10
abstract-syntax-tree10
bitcoin10
java10
chroot10
c-lightning10
blockchain10
checkers10
refactoring10
nodes10
error-prone10
battery10
lightning-network9
plugin9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
giovannizotta/circular
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Core Lightning plugin that helps routing nodes rebalance their channels
Contributions:7 releases, 1 review, 215 commits in 5 months
core-lightninglightningnodesrebalancerouting
go-risk-it/go-risk-it
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:37 PRs, 181 pushes, 9 branches in 10 months
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