Marco Fontani
Senior Software Engineer at Turnitin
San Donato Milanese, Lombardy, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolMarco Fontani is a senior software engineer and systems-minded tech lead with 17 years of experience building and maintaining large-scale web applications and infrastructure. He blends Modern Perl expertise with full-stack skills—databases, Debian Linux ops, web servers, and automation—to deliver pragmatic, elegant solutions that endure in production. Marco has led technical teams and infrastructure migrations (notably major Debian upgrades and a provider/CDN migration) while still shipping hands-on code in C, Perl and modern web stacks. As a freelance consultant and long-time contributor to outlets like The Register, he pairs stakeholder-facing architecture and code review work with day-to-day sysadmin responsibilities. He tracks and publishes his work via Git and favors thorough testing (Test::More), reflecting a discipline for maintainable code. Outside work he’s unabashedly a “camel and penguin whisperer,” signalling a deep affinity for Perl and Linux culture.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
ITIS G.Galilei
Italian, English
Stackoverflow
2,954reputation
242kreached
56answers
1question
perl
top-5%
Github Skills (163)
windows10
xmake10
perl10
lua10
cloudflare-api10
cpp10
qt10
linux10
text-based10
locker10
keyboard10
rpg10
api10
sdk10
papertrail10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mfontani/Leguminous
Sep 2010 - Jul 2019
Contributions:69 commits, 8 pushes, 2 comments in 8 years 11 months
liteviewerpodmojolicious
mfontani/git-recent
Jun 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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