Simone Sanfratello is a senior software engineer based in Florence with two decades of experience designing and scaling backend systems for startups, product companies and enterprises. He specializes in Node.js, PostgreSQL, distributed systems and high-throughput microservices, with a pragmatic focus on performance, observability and reliability engineering. Simone has a track record of rescuing critical production systems, modernizing legacy architectures, and driving measurable improvements such as a 9× throughput gain in Kafka-backed GraphQL subscriptions. He has led teams shipping continuous delivery for large multiplayer game platforms and built an AI real-time translation service in Rust, showing a willingness to pick the right tool for the job beyond his Node.js core. An active contributor and occasional speaker in the Node.js ecosystem, he blends hands-on implementation with mentoring to strengthen engineering culture.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Industrial Engineer in Information Technology, Industrial Engineer in Information Technology at ITIS S.Fedi Pistoia
Contributions:1 release, 54 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 7 months
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