Roberto Ostinelli
CTO, EMEA at Mechanical Orchard
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolRoberto Ostinelli is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 16 years of experience building distributed, fault-tolerant systems and scaling products across startups and established firms from Milan. A long-time advocate of Erlang, Elixir and Ruby, he has led cloud architecture, API design and agile XP practices at companies like Neato Robotics, Pivotal Labs and several startups he co-founded. He combines hands-on engineering—authoring protocols and IoT systems—with team-building and training expertise, having recruited and grown engineering branches and converted products to distributed architectures. Beyond engineering, Roberto is a creative polymath: a musician and photographer who runs a game studio using Unreal Engine, bringing a design-minded perspective to technical problems. Notably, he has authored open protocols (OpenSpime) and coached teams in TDD, pair programming and continuous delivery to reliably ship at scale.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Marketing, MBA, Marketing at Katholieke Universiteit LeuvenIngénieur Commercial, Management, Ingénieur Commercial, Management at Solvay Business School
English, Italian, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (188)
authentication10
windows-phone10
gossip10
ruby-on-rails10
cowboy10
sublime-text10
axis10
latency10
api10
rest10
mediarecorder10
tarantool10
posgresql10
pooling10
memory-footprint10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ostinelli/SublimErl
Apr 2012 - Mar 2013
An Erlang Plugin for Sublime Text 2, which enables code completion and allows you to run tests within the editor itself.
Contributions:149 commits in 11 months
erlangerlang-plugintextmatecode-completionsublime
ostinelli/pgpool
Nov 2015 - Dec 2019
A PosgreSQL client that automatically uses connection pools and handles reconnections in case of errors.
Contributions:67 commits, 3 PRs, 39 pushes in 4 years
posgresqlerlangpoolingpartitioningconnection
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