Vincenzo Scamporlino is a Senior Software Engineer based in Stockholm with 10 years of experience building cloud-native, full-stack systems using Node, TypeScript, React, React Native and AWS. He currently contributes to Spotify’s Backstage project, focusing on backend authorization and permission systems—work that improved type safety and evolved core permission interfaces in a widely adopted open-source developer portal. Previously a tech lead for a SaaS EV charging platform, he has hands-on experience with Kafka, DynamoDB, Terraform and real-time architectures. Comfortable across mobile and backend domains, he blends pragmatic engineering with platform thinking to simplify developer workflows and production security. An early career background in mobile and embedded web projects gives him a practical edge when bridging frontend UX with scalable backend services.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Industrial Engineer in Computer Science Diploma, Computer Science, 94/100, Industrial Engineer in Computer Science Diploma, Computer Science, 94/100 at Istituto tecnico industriale E. Fermi Siracusa
Computer Science Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 104/110, Computer Science Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 104/110 at Università di Pisa
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:933 reviews, 156 commits, 219 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Vincenzo primarily contributed to the Backstage project by working on permission-related functionalities. Their work involved deprecating and replacing the `PermissionAuthorizer` interface, moving policy queries, and enhancing type safety. They also made changes to various permission-related files and integrated the new `PermissionEvaluator` within multiple backend services, indicating a focus on improving the project's authorization system.
React Native client for the tus resumable upload protocol.
Contributions:20 commits, 3 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 6 months
reacttusreact-nativeandroidios
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Vincenzo Scamporlino - Senior Software Engineer at Spotify