Marcello Urbani
Founding Engineer at Nova Intelligence
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMarcello Urbani is a seasoned ABAP-focused software engineer and founding engineer with over 12 years of professional experience modernizing SAP landscapes through TDD, object-oriented design patterns and agile practices. He has a deep, hands-on background across SAP modules (SD, MM, PP, FI/CO, HR) and platform roles from security and transport management to architecture and solution design. At Basis Technologies he progressed from solution specialist to technical architect, and now helps shape a startup approach to SAP at Nova Intelligence. An active open-source contributor, Marcello has materially improved the widely used abapGit project—refactoring code, removing dependencies and hardening XML and locking logic—to make ABAP development more maintainable and Git-friendly. Comfortable leading or working independently, he blends practical legacy-system expertise with a clear drive to introduce modern engineering practices into SAP teams.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea, Ingegneria informatica (computer science), Laurea, Ingegneria informatica (computer science) at Politecnico di Milano
Github Skills (7)
refactoring10
abap10
refactor10
git-client10
xml-parsing9
sap9
git8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
abapGit/abapGit
Aug 2018 - Mar 2020
Git client for ABAP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Marcello primarily contributed to the `abapgit/abapgit` repository by refactoring and modifying ABAP code. Their work involved cleaning up code, removing dependencies, and refactoring classes. The user also addressed issues related to locking mechanisms within the ABAP environment and improved the handling of special characters in XML parsing. These commits demonstrate a focus on improving the maintainability and stability of the ABAPGit client.
abapgit-clientabapgitsapsap-gui
marcellourbani/vscode-activecontrol
Apr 2020 - Nov 2024
Integration with activecontrol, to automate transport form creation
Contributions:5 PRs, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
railsrubytransportcreation
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