Marco Primi
Distributed Systems Bug Hunter at Antithesis
Sebastopol, California, United States
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Top SchoolMarco Primi is a Distributed Systems Bug Hunter with 15 years of experience building and hardening cloud-native, large-scale platforms from Apple and Netflix to open-source projects. He specializes in reliability, chaos testing, and performance—contributing JetStream resilience tooling and chaos utilities to the NATS server and feature work on Netflix Genie’s agent and gRPC services. Marco also blends full-stack skills and privacy-minded design, creating front-end interfaces and Web Crypto integrations for portable-secret to enable private workflows without special software. Based in Sebastopol, CA, he moves between consulting and hands-on engineering, pairing a master’s focus in dependable distributed systems with pragmatic production experience. Colleagues know him for hunting subtle failure modes as well as shipping pragmatic fixes that improve observability and testability across distributed clusters.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of LuganoMaster's Degree Computer Science Dependable Distributed Systems, Master's Degree Computer Science Dependable Distributed Systems at USI Università della Svizzera italianaTechnical High School Electronics Telecommunication Industrial Automation, Technical High School Electronics Telecommunication Industrial Automation at ITIS L. Cobianchi
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Github Skills (34)
javascript10
back-end-development10
testing10
distributed-systems10
message-queue10
java10
security10
javas10
go10
front-end-development10
golang10
html10
message-bus10
cloud-native10
encryption10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
mprimi/portable-secret
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
Better privacy without special software
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 5 PRs, 23 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Marco primarily focused on developing the front-end user interface for the "Portable Secret" project. Their contributions involved significant updates to the `example.html`, and the creation of new example files, such as `example-document.html` and `example-file.html`, showcasing different use cases. The user also worked on the creation of the creator tool's user interface (creator/index.html, and creator/secret-template.html), handling user inputs, and integrating encryption logic using web cryptography APIs.
cryptographyweb-cryptography-apiprivacysecurityjavascript
Netflix/genie
May 2017 - Dec 2020
Distributed Big Data Orchestration Service
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:73 releases, 27 reviews, 658 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Marco primarily focused on implementing new features and improving the existing functionality of the Genie agent. Their contributions included the development of an adapter class for easier extensibility, the addition of a utility class for handling regular expression rule sets, and the implementation of code to clean up dependencies. They also worked on the gRPC and Java-based services to support improved performance.
big-databigdataorchestrationconfigurationconfiguration-management
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