Mattia Barbon
Senior Developer at Booking.com
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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SeniorMattia Barbon is a Senior Developer based in Amsterdam with 14 years of professional software development experience and a 24-year technical career footprint spanning startups to large-scale infrastructure. He excels at performance-sensitive backend work—contributing to the JVM honest-profiler and improving wxWidgets—and has hands-on experience operating multi-datacenter deployments with hundreds of servers. Comfortable across Java, Go, Python, C++, React/React Native, Perl and Kubernetes, he pairs clean, test-driven code with a strong focus on measurable business impact. Mattia has a track record of shipping pragmatic tooling from hackathon prototypes to production (including a Perl statistical profiler at Booking.com) and enjoys digging into instrumentation, profiling and low-level generated code. He brings an engineering curiosity that turns spare-time projects into practical assets for his teams, and is currently exploring machine learning for recommender systems.
24 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Italian, English, French
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Github Skills (18)
c-language10
develop10
performance-monitor10
performance-analytics10
code-profiling10
cross-platform10
java10
wxwidgets10
javas10
agent10
performance-analysis10
profiling10
windows-gui10
performance-monitoring10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wxWidgets/wxWidgets
Sep 2001 - Feb 2011
Cross-Platform C++ GUI Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:859 commits in 9 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Mattia focused on improving the wxWidgets library, primarily addressing issues related to the Motif port. Their contributions involved reworking font and color inheritance, handling uninitialized variables, and unifying font handling methods. They also made minor fixes to components like wxCheckListBox and wxStaticText, and implemented modifications to menus and event handling to streamline code.
x11c-plus-plussdlwin32gui-framework
jvm-profiling-tools/honest-profiler
Jul 2015 - Feb 2017
A sampling JVM profiler without the safepoint sample bias
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Performance Engineer
Back-end Developer & Performance EngineerContributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 6 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Mattia contributed to the core logic of the honest-profiler, specifically focused on optimizing performance. Their work involved modifying the signal handling, timer intervals, and processor interactions to avoid sample loss and improve profiling accuracy. The user also added methods to control and monitor the profiler's running state, demonstrating a focus on the agent's functionality. Additionally, the user implemented configuration options to control sampling intervals, integrating these parameters into the profiling process.
kotlinjvmbiasjavasampling
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