Riccardo Cossu
Freelance Software Developer
Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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Top SchoolRiccardo Cossu is a freelance software developer with 12+ years of experience specializing in backend Java and Node.js systems, continuous integration, and build automation. He has led architecture and CI initiatives across enterprise projects, introducing tools like Maven, Jenkins and TeamCity to streamline testing, packaging and deployments. A pragmatic mentor and occasional public speaker, he helps teams adopt robust testing practices (JUnit, Mockito) and clean service designs (JAX-RS, Spring/Spring Boot). Riccardo is an active open-source maintainer — authoring Autodoc and i18split and contributing to MyBatis and Spring Social PayPal — and runs technical Linux and coding blogs. Based in Bologna, he pairs hands-on development with consultancy on process improvements, often finding simple automation-driven fixes for messy integration and versioning issues.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
DettoriSofware engineering, Computer science, Sofware engineering, Computer science at Engineering degree
English, Italian, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (82)
jersey9
jax-rs9
java9
serialization9
switch8
ftp-server8
3ds8
password-generator8
password-vault8
adapter7
tomcat6
maven6
jpa6
localization6
jackson6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
riccardocossu/i18split
Sep 2014 - Dec 2016
Contributions:48 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 2 years 3 months
translationlocalizationinternationalizationi18n
riccardocossu/autodoc
Aug 2013 - Apr 2014
Contributions:112 commits in 8 months
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