Uberto Barbini
Senior Software Engineer at Kraken
Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
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Top SchoolUberto Barbini is a senior software engineer and technical lead with 21+ years building high-performance, distributed systems across finance and publishing, currently focused on AI-driven developer tooling and platform work. A polyglot practitioner and Kotlin expert, he combines functional programming, clean design, and rigorous testing to deliver cloud-native microservices, event-sourced architectures, and low-latency risk platforms. He has driven measurable improvements in production—e.g., doubling real-time VaR performance at Citi—and authored widely used open source Kotlin libraries and several long-standing OSS projects like FractalForge. An experienced speaker, teacher and co-author, he blends deep hands-on engineering with coaching and delivery leadership across multinational teams. Based in Fukuoka, Japan, he still pursues language experiments annually and started programming on a ZX Spectrum, a hint at his long-lived curiosity and pragmatic craftsmanship.
21 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Level H, Japanese language, Level H, Japanese language at EIC Japanese Language School, MilanMaturita' scientifica, Maturita' scientifica at liceo scientificoPhilosophy, Philosophy at Università Ca' Foscari di Veneziamaturita' scientifica, scientifica, maturita' scientifica, scientifica at liceo scientifico Benedetto Marcello
English, Japanese, Italian, German
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Github Skills (63)
kotlin10
gradle10
reflection10
groovy10
java10
typesafe10
automation10
junit10
immutability10
kotlin-coroutines9
async9
reactive9
http-service9
http9
evolution9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
uberto/quarkus-quickstarts
Mar 2019 - May 2019
Quarkus quickstart code
Contributions:31 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 2 months
quarkus
uberto/funpatterns-longcourse
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:56 commits, 20 pushes, 1 comment in 9 days
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