Paolo Toscano
Software Engineer at Capgemini
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPaolo Toscano is a software engineer based in London with 12 years of engineering experience, currently building automation, infrastructure and DevOps tooling at Capgemini to improve resilience, reduce costs, and streamline deployments. Trained as an aerospace engineer with a Master’s in Control Systems, he blends rigorous system modelling and safety-first thinking with practical skills in Python, SQL and Ansible to deliver scalable, production-ready solutions. His background spans avionics, turbomachinery, manufacturing and robotics, giving him a rare cross-disciplinary perspective that informs robust monitoring and disaster recovery designs. An active backend and database contributor to projects like web3.storage, he’s comfortable refactoring complex data layers and hardening error logging to support distributed services.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 73 Average (First Class), Master's degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 73 Average (First Class) at The University of Sheffield
English, Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (15)
schema-design10
postgresql10
sql10
schema10
database-design10
db-schema10
database-schema10
typescript-types9
apidoc9
typescript9
ipfs9
typescripts9
filecoin9
api9
storage9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
web3-storage/web3.storage
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
DEPRECATED ⁂ The simple file storage service for IPFS & Filecoin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:315 reviews, 186 commits, 142 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Paolo primarily focused on back-end development tasks, including database schema updates, type annotation improvements, and error logging enhancements. They made significant contributions to the database interaction layer by refactoring database client code, creating new types, and adding new features to support pinning APIs. Moreover, the user was also responsible for implementing various functions and queries to interact with the database.
ipfsfilestoragefilecoinp2pfile-storage
flea89/angular-spy
Dec 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:26 commits, 21 pushes, 4 branches in 9 months
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