Matteo Badini
Principal Engineer Technical Innovator Strategic Leader In Software Development
Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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Top SchoolMatteo Badini is a Principal Engineer and technical innovator based in Bologna with 11 years of experience building high-performance, accessible web applications and leading engineering teams. At GELLIFY he drives architectural strategy, mentors engineers, and champions adoption of modern technologies to solve complex performance challenges. His background spans frontend-focused roles at YOOX NET-A-PORTER where UX, accessibility and speed were priorities, to infrastructure and full-stack responsibilities at smaller agencies, giving him a pragmatic end-to-end perspective. A longtime supporter of open source, he combines hands-on coding with strategic leadership and a sustained focus on measurable performance gains. Outside work he keeps disciplined through calisthenics, reflecting the same focus on incremental improvement he brings to engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea triennale Ingegneria informatica, Laurea triennale Ingegneria informatica at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di BolognaRagioneria amministrazione e controllo Liceo Economico, Ragioneria amministrazione e controllo Liceo Economico at Istituto Tecnico Commerciale Rosa Luxemburg
Italian, English, Spanish
Github Skills (85)
ui-components10
authentication10
shadcn-ui10
shadow-dom10
backend10
radix10
laravel10
focus10
tanstack10
react-aria10
trpc10
radix-ui10
tailwindcss10
polyfills10
stripe10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
matteobad/focus-within-polyfill
Apr 2019 - Apr 2021
Small vanilla javascript that feature detect the :focus-within pseudo selector and polyfills it with a standard css class if necessary.
Contributions:9 releases, 103 commits, 104 PRs in 2 years
csspolyfillsvanilla-javascriptpolyfillfocus-within
matteobad/vanilla-fade
Apr 2019 - May 2020
Vanilla js implementation of the JQuery fade methods
Contributions:4 releases, 77 commits, 53 PRs in 1 year 1 month
jqueryjs
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