Michele Capra
Senior Backend Engineer at Deel
Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolMichele Capra is a Senior Backend Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable, data-driven systems for fast-growing startups and international clients. He has progressed from second-hire engineer to interim CTO, shaping technical strategy and leading teams while remaining hands-on with Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL and AI-driven features. Michele combines a strong academic background and lecturing experience—teaching Elixir and schemaless Postgres techniques—with practical product instincts honed at Portchain, where he helped embed ML and optimization into logistics software. Known for mentoring engineers and prioritizing people as the core ingredient of successful products, he also founded a data-analytics startup focused on behavioral market indicators, showing an enduring interest in applied research and inventive data models. Now based in Lombardy and currently at Deel, he brings both startup agility and engineering leadership to complex backend challenges.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea Specialistica, Ingegneria Informatica, Laurea Specialistica, Ingegneria Informatica at Università degli Studi di BresciaI.T.I.S. "B. Castelli"Technical Team Leadership, Technical Team Leadership at University of OxfordVisiting Researcher Assistant, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Visiting Researcher Assistant, School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College DublinEngineering Leadership for Emerging Leaders, ENGINEERING, Engineering Leadership for Emerging Leaders, ENGINEERING at MIT Professional Education
English, French
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Github Skills (107)
postgresql10
windows10
node-postgres10
seneca10
javascript10
linux10
js10
rocket10
macos10
nodejs10
libpq10
nextjs10
mongoose9
ansible8
python8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
piccoloaiutante/schemaless-postgres
Nov 2017 - Nov 2020
Contributions:24 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
Portchain/auth-14-client
Aug 2018 - Mar 2021
Federated login client
Contributions:1 release, 7 reviews, 4 PRs in 2 years 6 months
federationloggingfederated
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