Riccardo Magliocchetti
Principal Software Engineer at Elastic
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
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Top SchoolRiccardo Magliocchetti is a Senior Software Engineer with 18 years of experience building Python web backends, leading small teams, and shaping engineering culture from Turin, Italy. He has deep hands-on experience with Django, Flask, Tornado and embedded Python, and now maintains OpenTelemetry Python and Elastic’s Python APM agent at Elastic. A pragmatic engineering leader, he’s designed hiring pipelines, introduced 1:1s, and fostered low-stress, high-output teams while still contributing substantial code. An active open-source contributor, Riccardo has improved projects like Django, uWSGI and Apache Superset and has ported core libraries to MicroPython, showing a penchant for polishing both production systems and developer tooling. His background in telco systems and Linux integration gives him a rare operational lens on observability and reliability.
18 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
ITCS A.Gramsci
python :), English, Italian
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Github Skills (78)
restructuredtext10
uwsgi10
python10
rest-framework10
testing10
plugin-development10
authentication10
templater10
c1110
c1710
micropython10
bootstra10
admin-interface10
drupal-module10
django10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
django-admin-bootstrapped/django-admin-bootstrapped
May 2014 - Jul 2020
A Django admin theme using Twitter Bootstrap. It doesn't need any kind of modification on your side, just add it to the installed apps.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 232 commits, 23 PRs in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Riccardo primarily contributed to the Django admin theme, addressing CSS class inconsistencies and updating templates to align with Bootstrap 3 standards. They fixed bugs related to the display of error messages, updated the layout of forms, and improved the overall appearance and functionality of various admin interface elements. Furthermore, they made improvements to the language selector dropdown menu and the display of actions in the change list, enhancing the user experience.
bootstrapdjango-admintwitter-bootstrap
unbit/uwsgi
Oct 2010 - Jan 2023
uWSGI application server container
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 reviews, 524 commits, 332 PRs in 12 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Riccardo primarily contributed to the uWSGI application server, demonstrating a focus on bug fixes and enhancements to various components. They addressed memory leaks and potential vulnerabilities reported by Coverity static analysis, ensuring the stability and security of the server. Furthermore, the user implemented features like displaying spooler jobs in the Django admin, and improved code formatting.
application-serveruwsgi
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