Simone Vellei is a Senior Backend Engineer with 12 years of experience blending embedded Linux and IoT engineering with cloud-native backend microservices. Based in Italy and currently at Cybus, he has a track record of shipping secure, cost-saving systems—from SSO and notification platforms to scalable IoT cloud infrastructures—that transformed product lines and saved his employers significant recurring costs. He led cross-functional teams integrating firmware, cloud, and voice assistants, and his open-source contributions include enhancing Go bindings for OpenAI fine-tuning workflows, reflecting hands-on work with modern AI APIs. Known for pragmatic project leadership and a people-oriented approach, he thrives in remote-first environments and bridges low-level device constraints with robust backend architectures.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
High School Diploma Mainly scientific subjects, High School Diploma Mainly scientific subjects at Liceo Scientifico, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy
OpenAI ChatGPT, GPT-3, GPT-4, DALL·E, Whisper API wrapper for Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:14 reviews, 14 PRs, 33 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Simone primarily contributed to implementing and enhancing the fine-tuning job API for OpenAI's models within the Go-based library. They added functionalities for creating, canceling, and retrieving fine-tuning jobs, along with listing job events. The user also deprecated the legacy fine-tunes API and added base64 embedding format support. Furthermore, the user added support for new fields, including chat completion response format, seed parameter, and tools/tool choice.
Simple SMTP client with HTTP/API interface and MongoDB as queue.
Contributions:1 release, 26 PRs, 50 pushes in 1 year 2 months
apismtpapi-interfacesmtp-clientmongodb
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