Salvatore Candela
Sabbatical Enjoyer
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolSalvatore Candela is a pragmatic senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable web and cloud software, most recently at ServiceNow and New Relic. Based in Portland, he pairs strong technical chops with a leadership mindset developed as a lead developer and long-tenured contributor to product teams. Currently on sabbatical, he spends his time tinkering with LLMs (humorously dubbed “Large LEGO Models”), crafting Magic: The Gathering decks, and prototyping software he’s passionate about—demonstrating a blend of creative problem-solving and deep hands-on skill. Known as a straight shooter, he’s the kind of personality hire who brings clarity, practical engineering, and a track record of shipping quality systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Portland Community CollegeScottsdale Community College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (32)
relic10
popup9
aws-lambda9
lambda9
dropdown9
cli8
tooltips8
flexbox8
eventbrite8
font-size8
sdk8
aws8
tooltip8
semantic7
serverless7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
salvatorious/nice-touch-dev-docs
Sep 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:37 pushes in 1 year 9 months
javascriptreacttouchdev
salvatorious/radpress
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
trickswordpresssnippets
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