Natale Patriciello
Senior Software Engineer at Vonage
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolNatale Patriciello is a Senior Software Engineer based in Barcelona with 12 years of experience building real-time communications and networking systems, currently leading media routing and rate-control efforts on Vonage’s WebRTC stack. He holds a PhD in ICT and a Master's with honors in Theoretical Computer Science, and transitioned from academic research on 5G-NR latencies and simulator development (5G-LENA, ns-3 contributions) into production-grade engineering. Natale blends research rigor with hands-on infrastructure work—driving IaC transformations, Jira-aligned delivery processes, and critical production debugging to improve reliability and performance. His background includes leading MAC and NR-U studies with industry partners and contributing testing-focused patches to the ns-3 network simulator ecosystem, reflecting a deep focus on reproducible, testable systems. Outside work he’s equally adventurous—former rock-band musician and avid surfer—bringing creative problem-solving and resilience to technical leadership.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of BolognaDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
English, Italian, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
test-framework10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
testing10
macros9
debugging8
code-documentation7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nsnam/ns-3-dev-git
Sep 2014 - Sep 2020
GitHub read-only mirror of ns-3-dev repository, will be kept in sync with main GitLab.com repository. Please DO NOT file pull requests here; instead, file issues and merge requests at https://gitlab.com/nsnam/ns-3-dev/
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:309 commits, 2 PRs in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Natale's commits primarily focused on adding and modifying macros for testing purposes within the ns-3-dev repository, specifically related to testing the greater-than-or-equal-to and less-than-or-equal-to relations. The code changes involve the creation and implementation of assertion and expectation macros to facilitate consistent error reporting and test execution control. The changes reflect a focus on enhancing the testing infrastructure for the software project.
ns3
natale-p/ns-3-dev-git
Jan 2016 - Nov 2018
Experimental GitHub read-only mirror of ns-3 development repository, will be kept in sync with original Mercurial repository; pull requests not accepted at the moment
Contributions:177 commits, 3 PRs, 815 pushes in 2 years 10 months
mercurialns3
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