Stefano Bonetti
Engineering Manager at Apple
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolStefano Bonetti is an experienced engineering manager and backend engineer with 11 years building large-scale, reactive systems primarily on the JVM. He has deep expertise in Scala and the Akka ecosystem—contributing to Akka, Akka HTTP and the prominent Alpakka integration library—bringing practical improvements like FTP/SFTP file-attributes, append-mode sinks and hardened error handling. At Apple he leads engineering work on massive data analytics platforms, after earlier senior roles designing reactive pipelines at Expedia and identity/back-end systems at Sky. He pairs hands-on implementation skills (Scala, Akka Streams, Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, AWS) with leadership in productionizing resilient distributed systems. A summa cum laude computer engineering graduate, he also speaks and authors community-focused material on stream-driven design and backpressure. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer-manager who still prefers to solve core infrastructure problems in code rather than slideware.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of Bologna
Italian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
akka10
ftp10
java10
akka-http10
scala10
javas10
sftp10
concurrency10
integrate9
integrations9
distributed-systems9
log4j9
slf4j9
actor-model9
reactive-streams9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
akka/alpakka
Feb 2017 - Feb 2018
Alpakka is a Reactive Enterprise Integration library for Java and Scala, based on Reactive Streams and Akka.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 38 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Stefano focused on enhancing the FTP connector within the Alpakka library. Their contributions involved adding the ability to retrieve file attributes (including POSIX permissions) for FTP and SFTP, and implementing an append mode for the `toPath` sink in the Java and Scala DSLs. They also improved error handling and ensured the correct behavior of the sink. These changes expanded the functionality and robustness of the FTP integration capabilities.
akka-streamintegrationenterprise-integrationakka-streams-connectorsstreams
akka/akka
May 2016 - May 2018
A platform to build and run apps that are elastic, agile, and resilient. SDK, libraries, and hosted environments.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 15 PRs, 44 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Stefano primarily contributed to the Akka HTTP module, focusing on server-side routing and request handling. Their commits involved modifying code related to marshalling directives, improving error handling with MalformedRequestContentRejection, and adding functionality related to the `onCompleteWithBreaker` directive. Furthermore, the user worked on documentation updates and examples related to HTTP server directives and streams.
resilientactor-modelreactiveconcurrentdistributed-actors
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