Sebastiano Merlino
Business Owner at Figura.ink
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSebastiano Merlino is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 15+ years building distributed systems, large-scale data processing, and privacy-aware platforms across Amazon, Shopify, and startups. He began coding at age six and founded Zencoders in 2010, blending deep systems programming (C/C++) with practical product delivery from embedded REST libraries to Android and web apps. At Amazon he progressed from SDE to Principal Engineer, driving scalable backend architectures and at Shopify continued in senior technical leadership before launching his own firm in Seattle. His background spans database engines, message broker overlays, and image-recognition pipelines, and he has taught Linux/Open Source courses at the University of Catania. Notably, he has engineered cross-language C++ libraries exposed via SWIG and built fault-tolerant AMQP overlays—work that reflects both low-level mastery and a knack for pragmatic integration. He combines academic grounding in information technology with entrepreneurial instincts to turn complex distributed problems into production-ready systems.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
High school Diploma, Scientific Studies, High school Diploma, Scientific Studies at Liceo Scientifico, L.Da Vinci, Floridia (SR)Master Degree, Engineering, Information Technology, Master Degree, Engineering, Information Technology at Università di Catania
English, Italian, French
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Github Skills (86)
benchmark10
http10
embedded10
rest-api10
cpp10
rest10
shoutcast10
cpp-library10
cross-platform10
libcurl10
http-server10
rest-server10
ipv610
restful-api10
https-server10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
etr/libhttpserver
Feb 2012 - Dec 2022
C++ library for creating an embedded Rest HTTP server (and more)
Contributions:2 releases, 86 reviews, 1112 commits in 10 years 11 months
c-plus-pluscpp-libraryhttp-servertlsipv6
zencoders/sambatyon
Dec 2010 - Jul 2011
Contributions:74 commits in 7 months
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