Nicola Arena
Senior Software Engineer at Freelancer
Rome, Lazio, Italy
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Top SchoolNicola Arena is a Senior Software Engineer based in Rome with 11+ years building distributed, low-latency systems across Scala, Java/J2EE and the Hadoop/Spark ecosystem. He has deep domain experience in gambling platforms across multiple jurisdictions and a strong interest in architecture, OO design and functional programming, often leading small teams and projects as technical lead. As a freelancer since 2015 he combines hands-on Scala and Spring Cloud microservices work with Big Data engineering, having served as Senior Data Engineer on enterprise Hadoop/Spark deployments. He favors remote roles and continuous integration practices, and brings practical experience designing scalable, fault-tolerant systems rather than just coding features. An unusual detail: beyond software he trained in professional cooking and practiced the Grinberg Method, pointing to disciplined curiosity and a people-centered approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Scuola Elementare Statale Soveratocertificate Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant, certificate Food Preparation/Professional Cooking/Kitchen Assistant at A Tavola Con Lo Chef - RomeElectronic Engineering Engineering, Electronic Engineering Engineering at Sapienza Università di RomaLiceo Scientifico Statale di Soverato
Italian, English, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
sbt8
scala5
sbt-plugin5
jinja25
cookiecutter4
python4
machine-learning3
data-structures3
data-science2
zinc2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
CGnal/python-unittests-example
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
nromeoarena/scala-sbt-release-example
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 1 day
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