Simone Basso
Engineering Manager at Gorgias
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolSimone Basso is an engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling product-focused engineering teams across European startups, currently serving as Engineering Manager at Gorgias in Turin. He blends hands-on technical rigor—from front-end JavaScript improvements in notable open-source projects like Flowtime.js and an AngularJS PDF directive—to DevOps and QA contributions in widely used tools such as Cookiecutter, where he added security-focused pre-commit checks and improved test isolation. Previously a Technical Lead at Casavo and Oval Money and former CTO, Simone has a track record of shipping reliable, user-centered systems for consumer and e-commerce platforms. He emphasizes code quality, maintainability, and automation, often fixing subtle issues like variable scoping and enforcing strict comparators that reduce bugs long-term. Fluent in bridging product needs and engineering execution, he brings practical experience in template systems, testing infrastructure, and front-end UX improvements to drive cross-functional teams.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Scienza computazionale, Scienza computazionale at Università degli Studi di Torino
Italian, English
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
pytest10
python10
testing10
css10
pdfjs10
codelist10
cookiecutter10
lint10
angularjs10
linting10
git9
cicd9
cs39
html9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
sayanee/angularjs-pdf
Nov 2015 - May 2017
:page_facing_up: An AngularJS directive <ng-pdf> to display PDF files with PDFJS
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 14 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Simone primarily contributed to the AngularJS PDF directive, fixing existing issues and adding new features. Their work focused on adding default values for canvas IDs, scaling PDF content, and implementing page-fitting functionality. They also updated the documentation and added examples, indicating a focus on improving usability and user experience.
pdfpdfjsdirectiveangularjsangular
cookiecutter/cookiecutter
Jan 2021 - Jun 2021
A cross-platform command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates), e.g. Python package projects, C projects.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & QA Engineer
DevOps Engineer & QA EngineerContributions:41 reviews, 22 commits, 22 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Simone contributed to enhancing the project's testing infrastructure and ensuring code quality. They implemented a pre-commit hook with Bandit for security checks, enabling automated code analysis. They also focused on improving test isolation by setting up a temporary filesystem environment and added branch coverage to the tests. Additionally, they added a feature for template inheritance, expanding flexibility in the project's template system.
cliproject-templatespythoncommand-line-utilitydeveloper-tools
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