Rosario Contarino
VP Of Engineering at Profitap
Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolRosario Contarino is a VP of Engineering with 14 years' experience building and leading embedded and network visibility software teams from hands-on driver work to product ownership. Based in Oudenaarde, Belgium, he currently leads Profitap’s engineering organization and previously scaled an international R&D team while owning the company’s data flow management portfolio. His background spans Linux kernel and GPU driver performance tuning, payment terminal development, and distributed systems research—bringing deep systems-level expertise to product and DevOps practices. He combines pragmatic architecture design for network-embedded systems with active mentoring of junior engineers and a track record of improving developer workflows through GitLab and Docker automation. Notably, his early kernel work was presented at an embedded Linux conference, reflecting a long-standing focus on performance and low-level reliability.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Engineering, 110 / 110 with honour, Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Engineering, 110 / 110 with honour at University of CataniaMaturità Scientifica, Corso Sperimentale Brocca Scientifico, 100/100, Maturità Scientifica, Corso Sperimentale Brocca Scientifico, 100/100 at Liceo Scientifico Leonardo, Giarre (CT)Erasmus Semester, Engineering, Erasmus Semester, Engineering at University of ExeterBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Engineering, 110/110 with honour, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Engineering, 110/110 with honour at Università di CataniaAcademic Internship, Distributed Systems, Master, Academic Internship, Distributed Systems, Master at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen / University of Groningen
Italian, English, Dutch
Github Skills (74)
keyboard-navigation10
mail-client9
luks9
html-email9
browser8
keyboard8
qt8
python8
jmap8
vim8
filesystem8
encryption7
crypto7
linux7
e-mail7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
saro/dot
Dec 2016 - Jan 2024
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 2 months
saro/MijnKardan
Mar 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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