Nicolò Pretto
Frontend Software Engineer at Metabase
Trentino – Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy
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Top SchoolNicolò Pretto is a frontend software engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in TypeScript, React and React Native, currently contributing to Metabase’s open-source BI project where he has improved dashboard UX, embedding features and test coverage. Based in Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy, he has a strong track record across product teams at Casavo, Subito and agency work, shipping SPAs and management systems with modern stacks like Redux/Redux Toolkit. He combines practical UI craftsmanship with full-stack awareness from his Metabase contributions, often refactoring complex codepaths and resolving tricky dashboard and query-related bugs. An academic background in interfaces and AI (including an Erasmus at Radboud) and early hands-on experience with VR and hardware projects give him a pragmatic, multidisciplinary approach to frontend problems.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
ITI "V. E. Marzotto", ValdagnoBachelor's Degree, Interfaces and communication technology, 110 with honors, Bachelor's Degree, Interfaces and communication technology, 110 with honors at Università degli Studi di TrentoExchange student (Erasmus+), Artificial Intelligence, Exchange student (Erasmus+), Artificial Intelligence at Radboud University Nijmegen
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
dashboard10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript9
typescript-types9
embedding9
typescripts9
testing8
css7
iterator6
openfl6
stdout6
utility6
haxe6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
metabase/metabase
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
The easy-to-use open source Business Intelligence and Embedded Analytics tool that lets everyone work with data :bar_chart:
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1166 reviews, 626 PRs, 1306 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Nicolò primarily focused on front-end development, implementing UI components and fixing bugs related to dashboard functionality. They addressed issues around card removal, query cancellation, and general improvements in the static and public-sharing embed features. The user contributed by refactoring existing code and adding new tests.
datasimplestfastestbusiness-analyticsbusiness-intelligence
npretto/pathfinding
Jan 2019 - Sep 2021
Visual explanation of pathfinding algorithms and how a*, Dijkstra and BFS can be seen as the same algorithm with different parameter/data structures used under the hood
Contributions:35 commits, 1 PR, 31 pushes in 2 years 8 months
heuristicdijkstraparameterpathfinding-algorithmsbfs
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