Salvatore Iovene
Founder at AstroBin
Bellinzona, Ticino, Switzerland
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Top SchoolSalvatore Iovene is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience building web and Linux-based systems, fluent in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, C and Debian environments. He has driven product and platform work from embedded and mobile (MeeGo, Maemo) to cloud-native web stacks, including a multi-year stint at Intel Open Source Technology Center advancing IoT and HTML5. As founder of AstroBin and a former Senior Software Engineer at TestingTime, he blends hands-on development with product-minded leadership. An active open-source contributor, his Django improvements to pybbm show attention to user-facing details like notification localization and configurable email settings. Colleagues know him for pragmatic problem solving—favoring vim, git and lightweight, robust tooling—and for keeping UX, performance and correctness tightly aligned. Based in Bellinzona, Switzerland, he brings entrepreneurial grit and deep systems fluency to both startup and engineering-center environments.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Computer Science, B.Sc., Computer Science at Università degli Studi di SalernoBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Liceo Scientifico di Scafati (SA)
Italian, English, Finnish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
template-tags10
templater10
template-engine10
python10
django10
emailjs9
e-mail9
mailer9
localization7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
hovel/pybbm
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Django forum solution. Tested, documented, shipped with example project.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Salvatore contributed to the Django forum solution, pybbm, by implementing several improvements. They focused on enhancing user experience by adding messages for subscription modifications and ensuring correct language usage in notification emails. Furthermore, they modified the code to incorporate a user setting for controlling email notifications, and updated templates to use the `pybb_time` tag. The commits demonstrate improvements related to user notification and template utilization.
discoursepythondjangodocumentedforum
intel/zephyrjs-ide
Jan 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:169 commits, 19 PRs, 402 pushes in 8 months
javascriptzephyr-osweb-ideidejavascript-web
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