Rocco Galluzzo
Principal Backend Engineer at iubenda
Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolRocco Galluzzo is a Principal Backend Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and shipping reliable, maintainable web applications, currently leading backend architecture at iubenda. He blends deep Ruby on Rails expertise with full-stack sensibilities and a pragmatic approach to system design that favors clarity, performance, and long-term team velocity. Rocco pairs day-to-day coding with mentoring, process improvement, and strategic technical planning, driving projects that strengthen core products and improve developer efficiency. His career spans startups, agency work, and product engineering across Florence and Italy, giving him a grounded perspective on shipping user-focused features under real-world constraints. Known for valuing craftsmanship over cleverness, he emphasizes codebases teams can trust and evolve rather than one-off hacks. Off-hours he keeps a playful, human touch to his public persona—“Faccio cose, vedo gente, scrivo codice”—reflecting a pragmatic curiosity that fuels continuous improvement.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Tecnico delle industrie Elettrice ed Elettroniche, Diploma Tecnico delle industrie Elettrice ed Elettroniche at IPSIA
Italian, English
Github Skills (130)
mvc10
ruby10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
html10
rails10
datocms10
location9
steam9
nuget9
ruby-client9
introspection9
pry9
net-library9
reflection9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mailup/mailup-ruby
Oct 2014 - Jun 2015
A Ruby gem for interacting with the MailUp REST API.
Contributions:37 commits, 10 pushes in 8 months
apiruby-gemrubygemrest
byterussian/geokit-rails
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:14 pushes, 2 branches in 5 days
rails-apprailsrubyrequireslocation
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