Salvatore Zappalà
Senior Software Engineer I at Booking.com
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSalvatore Zappalà is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience and a strong full-stack focus, currently working on platform engineering at Booking.com in London. He specializes in JavaScript (React and Node.js) with deep past experience in PHP and e-commerce platforms, having built and integrated custom Magento modules and payment gateways. Salvatore has progressed from junior developer roles in Sicily to senior engineering positions, bringing practical expertise in backend integrations, performance tuning, and developer tooling improvements like Vagrant-based pipelines. He routinely bridges UX-minded frontend work with robust backend architecture, and enjoys taking part in the design process as well as implementation. His background across startups and large product teams gives him a pragmatic approach to shipping scalable systems and improving developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Università di Catania
Italian, English
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Github Skills (28)
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debian-linux9
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command-line-tool8
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nodejs8
npm-cli8
npm7
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cross-platform7
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jekyll6
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sal-zappa/pipe-mail
Jul 2020 - Aug 2021
A tool to easily send e-mails from the command line
Contributions:22 commits, 2 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 1 month
command-line-toolsmtpmailmailsemail
salvozappa/ecommerce-microservice-architecture
Jan 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:59 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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