Valentino Pellegrino
Principal Software Engineer at MentorCruise
Zürich Metropolitan Area Switzerland
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Top SchoolValentino Pellegrino is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of experience designing and shipping full-stack solutions from Switzerland’s Zürich metro area. He blends deep front-end expertise—visible in significant contributions to KIE's DMN editor and Apache KIE tools—with pragmatic backend and integration work honed at Red Hat, Camunda, and BMC. Comfortable in remote-first teams, he focuses on improving developer UX and robustness, having fixed complex DMN copy/paste issues, added validators, and stabilized integration tests. Valentino mentors engineers through MentorCruise and writes technical content, reflecting a commitment to knowledge-sharing beyond code. He brings a track record of turning nuanced domain requirements into polished UI components and test-backed features for widely used open-source tooling. An Italian-educated computer scientist, he pairs academic grounding with hands-on impact across both enterprise products and community projects.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Università degli Studi di SalernoHigh School Diploma in Scientific Studies, High School Diploma in Scientific Studies at Science and Math High School G. Da Procida – Salerno (Italy)
Italian, English
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patternfly9
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kogito9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
apache/incubator-kie-tools
Jul 2021 - Feb 2022
Tools for KIE
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:34 reviews, 22 commits, 14 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Valentino primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the `boxed-expression-component` within the `apache/incubator-kie-tools` repository, which is used for tools related to KIE. The contributions include enhancements to the `FunctionExpression` component, improving the user interface for boxed expressions by implementing features such as editing capabilities for relation tables, and addressing styling issues. The user also integrated the component within the DMN editor and resolved related integration test failures.
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kiegroup/kie-wb-common
Apr 2020 - Nov 2020
Shared screens, widgets and services for KIE workbenches.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 15 commits, 17 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Valentino primarily contributed to the DMN (Decision Model and Notation) editor within the kie-wb-common repository. Their work included enhancing the DMN editor's UI components, specifically within the Decision Navigator, by differentiating icons for DRGElements. They also addressed copy/paste functionality issues within the DMN Designer, refactoring the code and adding unit tests. In addition, the user added keywords and made changes to the FEELSyntaxLightValidator and updated the build logic for DMN related components.
kiewidgets
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