Santino Puleio
Founder And Developer at Vesus.org
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSantino Puleio is a founder and engineering leader with 14+ years building customer-facing SaaS and 8+ years managing and growing distributed engineering teams across Europe and beyond. He combines hands-on full-stack craftsmanship—GraphQL, React, Node.js, and serverless AWS—with strategic architecture work such as API governance, Tech Radar stewardship, and DORA-driven delivery improvements that tripled deployment frequency at Trainline. He founded and operates Vesus.org, a chess tournament platform re-architected to a serverless event-driven system that now serves 5,000+ tournaments annually and exposes a public GraphQL API used by ~50 organisations. Comfortable turning legacy systems into modern platforms, Santino has a track record of reducing API calls and page load times, cutting infrastructure costs, and mentoring engineers into senior and principal roles. An active open-source contributor, he’s extended notable GraphQL projects like graphql-mesh and envelop and improved testing tooling for styled-components, showing a pragmatic focus on observability, testing and API ergonomics.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Music Education, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Music Education at University of Palermo - Faculty of Letters and PhilosophyClassical High School Diploma (GCSE), Classical High School Diploma (GCSE) at Classical Public High School “Vittorio Emanuele II”
Italian, English
Github Skills (20)
javascript10
testing10
typescript10
styled-components10
wpgraphql10
plugin10
api10
jestjs10
wordpress-graphql10
typescript-types10
graphql10
nodejs10
typescripts10
openapi10
rest-api8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
graphql-hive/envelop
Jun 2021 - Apr 2022
Envelop is a lightweight library allowing developers to easily develop, share, collaborate and extend their GraphQL execution layer. Envelop is the missing GraphQL plugin system.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 6 commits, 7 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Santino primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the `envelop` library, a GraphQL plugin system. Their work involved implementing and refactoring plugins, specifically a New Relic integration for monitoring and a persisted operations plugin. These contributions included modifying code to support enhanced functionality such as custom operation names, error handling and addressing feature requests related to existing plugins.
plugin-systemcollaboratemissinggraphql-pluginjavascript
ardatan/graphql-mesh
Jan 2021 - Nov 2022
🕸️ GraphQL Federation Framework for any API services such as REST, OpenAPI, Swagger, SOAP, gRPC and more...
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 30 commits, 35 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Santino primarily contributed to the `graphql-mesh` project by extending OpenAPI handler functionalities. Their work included exposing configuration options for customizing mutation payloads and selecting query/mutation fields. They also introduced "bare" mode to the filter-schema transform, updating the syntax and tests, and added support to require local modules as an addition to installed packages. Additionally, the user fixed CLI usage of the base directory and made transforms and handlers base-dir aware.
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