Luigi Cerone
Data Engineer
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolLuigi Cerone is a Data Engineer based in Rome with nine years of experience designing and building scalable ETL pipelines, streaming applications, and big data architectures using Java, Python, Kafka, Spark, Flink and Airflow. He has driven data platform work at consumer and property-tech firms, translating product needs into production-ready architectures while leveraging infrastructure-as-code and containerization tools like Terraform, Ansible, Docker and OpenStack. An open-source contributor to the high-profile Apache Iceberg project, he improved Python expression evaluation, added filtering primitives and PyArrow HDFS support—demonstrating hands-on expertise in data storage and query integration. Luigi combines strong academic credentials (top honors in both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Science) with a practical background across backend, real-time IoT dashboards and blockchain-related systems, making him adept at bridging research-grade rigor and production constraints. He brings a pragmatic, full-stack data engineering mindset with a track record of shipping resilient, test-covered features in complex distributed environments.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea triennale, Informatica, 110/110 with honors, Laurea triennale, Informatica, 110/110 with honors at Università degli Studi dell'AquilaPerito capotecnico informatico, Informatica, 100/100, Perito capotecnico informatico, Informatica, 100/100 at I.I.S. Ettore Majorana
Italian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
python10
apache10
data-processing10
apache-iceberg10
ice10
expressions9
pyarrow9
evaluation9
hdfs9
eval9
evaluator9
expression9
pytest8
testing8
ceph6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
apache/iceberg
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
Apache Iceberg
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 1 commit, 4 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Luigi primarily contributed to the Python codebase of the Apache Iceberg project. Their work involved updating dependencies like mypy, fixing related errors, and removing unused methods. They also implemented new expressions for filtering data, including 'starts_with' and 'not_starts_with', adding corresponding tests and integrating these new features into the existing expression evaluation framework. Furthermore, they added support for PyArrow HDFS, demonstrating expertise in data processing and storage integrations.
apache-icebergapachebig-datadatastreamjava
LuigiCerone/BouncingBallGame
Oct 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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