Simone Vellei
Senior Backend Engineer at Consultant
Grottammare, Marche, Italy
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Top SchoolSimone 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.
13 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 BolognaHigh School Diploma, Mainly scientific subjects, High School Diploma, Mainly scientific subjects at Liceo Scientifico, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
json10
openai-api10
apidoc10
go10
api10
fine-tuning10
chatgpt9
golang9
gpt9
streaming-api8
cypher6
stripes6
open-source6
maven-toolchains-plugin6
dynamic6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sashabaranov/go-openai
Aug 2023 - Nov 2023
OpenAI, GPT 5.6, GPT-Image-2, Whisper API clients for Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions: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.
gogptopenaiwhispergolang
henomis/pinecone-go
Apr 2023 - Jan 2024
Unofficial pinecone Go SDK - pinecone-go
Contributions:12 releases, 4 reviews, 5 PRs in 9 months
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