Nicholas Valbusa
Director Engineering & Technology at Nuitée | Technology infrastructure for travel
Italy
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Top SchoolNicholas Valbusa is a seasoned technology leader and Director of Engineering with over 20 years of hands-on experience designing scalable backend infrastructure, full-stack products, and cloud-native systems. He has led engineering teams through complex initiatives—from building a low-code platform and HipChat Windows Phone backend to guiding ISO27001 and SOC2 compliance—combining technical rigor with product-focused delivery. Comfortable both setting strategic direction and staying close to the code, Nicholas has deep expertise in AWS/GCP, containerization, IaC, CI/CD and performance optimization. He mentors engineering teams, drives pragmatic security and DevOps practices, and actively contributes to open-source projects such as enhancements to the php-goose content extraction library. Based in Italy, he blends startup grit and enterprise experience to turn prototypes and MVPs into reliable, market-ready products.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineer, Computers, Internet, Development, Computer Engineer, Computers, Internet, Development at ITIS Guglielmo Marconi (Verona, IT)CS1853 Japanese - Year 1, Japanese Language and Literature, CS1853 Japanese - Year 1, Japanese Language and Literature at City St George’s, University of London
English, Italian, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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33answers
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Github Skills (17)
readability10
webscraping10
dom-manipulation10
php10
html10
rt8
composer8
scraper8
utf7
ruby-on-rails6
callback6
iphone6
fiware-orion6
jquery6
ruby6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
scotteh/php-goose
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
Readability / Html Content / Article Extractor & Web Scrapping library written in PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits in 7 days
Contributions summary:Nicholas significantly enhanced the php-goose library by implementing features for extracting popular words from article content, discovering lead images, and improving overall content extraction capabilities. They addressed several fatal errors related to DOMElement and DOMText handling, and cleaned up code by removing useless tags and classes. The user also improved UTF-8 character handling and enhanced popular word extraction logic.
phparticle-extractorphp-goosereadabilityscraper
Fliplet/fliplet-widget-login-saml2
Jul 2017 - Jan 2023
SAML2 Login component for Fliplet apps
Contributions:4 reviews, 10 PRs, 12 pushes in 5 years 7 months
samlwidgetsso
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