Mirko Arena
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Warner Bros. Discovery
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolMirko Arena is a seasoned senior software engineering manager based in Milan with a decade of experience building and operating backend systems, primarily in Python and Django, across media and streaming platforms at Discovery and Warner Bros. Discovery. He combines hands-on backend development and sysadmin chops—having migrated legacy Windows estates to Linux, run services on AWS EC2/RDS, and tuned nginx/uwsgi—with people leadership and delivery of core product functionality. Comfortable across infrastructure, databases, caching and orchestration, he also contributes to open source projects like Rockstor, reflecting a practical interest in filesystems and storage snapshots. Known for a pragmatic, "lazy Pythonic" approach to getting things done, Mirko blends engineering depth with operational ownership and a penchant for making complex systems reliably manageable.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
University of MilanMathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at High School - Liceo Scientifico Vittorio Veneto
Italian, English
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Github Skills (57)
javascript10
btrfs10
canvas10
graph10
linux10
smart-tv10
tizen9
handlebars9
gevent9
drm9
mustache9
webos9
long-polling9
eventlet9
python-socket9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MFlyer/rockstor-core
Mar 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:4 PRs, 464 pushes, 194 branches in 3 years 1 month
network-attached-storagenaslinuxstoragebtrfs
MFlyer/rockstor-jslibs
Mar 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:21 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 5 months
javascript-librariesjavascriptfrontend
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