Rocco Caputo
Software Engineer at Plixer
Florida, United States
Summary
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SeniorRocco Caputo is a seasoned software engineer and systems architect with 27 years of experience designing high-performance network flow collectors and backend systems, currently building IPFIX, NetFlow, sFlow, and cloud log collectors at Plixer. He brings deep systems-level expertise across C, C++, Go, and Perl, and a long history of shipping robust backend infrastructure from his work on del.icio.us and Delicious 2.0 at Yahoo!. An active open-source contributor since the late 1990s, he authored award-winning CPAN modules (including a Best New Module winner for POE) and continues to maintain several distributions. Rocco balances hands-on implementation with careful API and data-design, favoring simplicity, non-redundancy, and practical specifications. Based in Florida, he combines a hobbyist’s early hardware-and-8/16-bit roots with enterprise-grade engineering to ask the hard questions that improve reliability and performance.
27 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (124)
perl10
lua10
divide10
keep-alive10
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blocking10
gdb10
api10
event-loop10
dist-zilla10
multitasking10
tty10
conventional-changelog10
pipe10
ansi10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rcaputo/vim-ledger_x
Jan 2018 - May 2020
eXtensions to the official VIM-Ledger plugin
Contributions:32 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 years 4 months
extensionsvimledgerledger-plugin
rcaputo/dzp-changelogfromgit
Apr 2010 - Jan 2018
Dist::Zilla plugin to generate changelogs from git commits
Contributions:31 commits, 4 PRs, 1 push in 7 years 10 months
changelogcommitshacklangdist-zillajgit
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