Io
La mia storia
Daniele Pestilli
Sviluppatore Full Stack & sys-admin da Roma
Sono uno sviluppatore italiano che presta particolare cura ed attenzione nello scrivere codice pulito ed elegante. Ho anni d'esperienza nel risolvere problemi complessi, in particolare nello sviluppo back-end di applicazioni web. Ho lavorato a Londra per più di 3 anni presso la Funnelback, una tecnologia di ricerca, come consulente di supporto e ingegnere DevOps. Mi sono successivamente trasferito a Tokyo per lavorare come sviluppatore full-stack per una piattaforma di gestione di alloggi Airbnb presso la Zens, e poi come sviluppatore freelance presso l'azienda tech Milanese, Mikamai. Sono attualmente uno sviluppatore Ruby on Rails presso la Octopi.
Sono sempre molto desideroso d'apprendere nuove tecnologie e tecniche da aggiungere alla mia gamma di strumenti, in modo da poter sempre utilizzare la tecnologia adeguata per il lavoro richiesto. Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, Coffeescript, Vue.js, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3, SCSS / SASS, Nginx, Git, Solr, Elasticsearch, Ansible, Jenkins sono solo alcune delle tecnologie con quali sento di poter offrire risultati ottimi per problemi difficili. Sono estremamente a mio agio con Linux e la riga di comando. Ho anche la capacità di apprendere nuove tecnologie con relativa facilità. Sono bilingue italiano ed inglese e parlo sufficentemente il giapponese da poterlo utilizzare in un ambiente lavorativo. Sono ben informato riguardo entrambi i principi di programmazione funzionale e ad oggetti. Mi piace trascorrere il mio tempo suonando la chitarra, disegnando, e risolvendo problemi di computazione scrivendo codice pulito ed elegante.
La mia età
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Abilità Tecniche
Me la cavo con...
Ruby on Rails
Ruby enthusiast and Rails aficionado. Very comfortable with MVC development and PostgreSQL is often my database of choice.
System Admin
Proficient with server setups, user creation, package management, bash scripting, log rotation, automated backups, server synchronization, etc.
Search Engine Integration
Familiar with crawlers, faceted & contextual navigation, content indexing, n-gram edit distance, semantic searches and much more.
Linux
GNU/Linux geek since age 14. I am familiar with everything from kernel compilation to fstab setup. The command line and Vim are my best friends.
CSS3 / SASS
I want my work to consistently be pixel perfect - from internal code to outward design.
Vue.js, jQuery & CoffeeScript
I like to add a bit of dynamics to my web apps, so I tend to make things slide and bounce :)
Ansible
If something needs to be done more than once, DevOps tools are key. I deploy apps, manage systems and crush complexity.
Nginx
I've often setup web servers, proxy passes, round-robin load balancing and the like.
Git
Version control has saved my bacon more than once! I use Git religiously.
Lavoro
Le mie esperienze professionali
Presente
Octopi
Sviluppatore Ruby on Rails - Postazione remota
Developed and maintained the Octopi TOS (Terminal Operating System)
Developed bulk data import features
Developed berth planning tool
Maintained and enhanced terminal gate operations flow
Developed and maintained data reports
Apr 2022
Advoc8
Web application developer - Remote
Dic 2018
Non Riservato
Sviluppatore freelance - Postazione remota
Developed and maintained Non Riservato's CSM
Lug 2018
NowServing
Co-founder & full stack developer - Postazione remota
Co-founder of the first total restaurant management solution
Developing backend API in Rails 5 & frontend in Vue.js + Nuxt.js
Giu 2018
Webbernet
Sviluppatore Ruby on Rails - Postazione remota
Worked on Allens Training Rails 5 application
Mar 2018
Mikamai
Sviluppatore freelance - Postazione remota
Developed and maintained survey and reward system, Surveyeah.
Infrastructure configuration and management.
Assisted in development of IFS Italy platform (international operator of specialized postal services)
Ago 2017
Zens
Full Stack Developer - Tokyo, Japan
Developed and maintained company's events app.
Developed long-term apartment booking platform, Zens Home.
Helped manage and support company infrastructure (AWS, Docker, Heroku, Jenkins).
Mentored interns
Developed and maintained company's internal booking management platform. Integratd with official Airbnb API.
Ott 2016
Funnelback - Enterprise Search Technology
Sys-Admin & Support Consultant - London, United Kingdom
Linux (CentOS, Scientific, Ubuntu) & Windows system administration, as well as AWS setup and remote configuration.
Developed a Ruby on Rails dashboard to monitor SaaS instances.
Provided user support for Funnelback's enterprise search technology via SSH, VPN or on-site.
Ensured all tickets in support ticket queue receive prompt reply within agreed SLA time.
Maintained documentation for internal systems and client setups.
Bash & Groovy workflow scripting.
Created backups and archives where necessary. Rotated logs when necessary.
Deployed disaster recovery (DR) servers.
Nginx / Openresty setup & deployment.
Provided guidance and mentored the company's interns.
Used Vagrant & Ansible playbooks to facilitate workflow automation.
Dic 2011
Mediazen
Italian language translator - Seoul, South Korea
Translator for software in second generation GPS systems for Hyundai and KIA automobiles.
Assisted in writing and editing sales and marketing materials.
Handled arrangements with third party providers, bookings and logistical support, amongst other things.
Mag 2011
American Overseas School of Rome
Substitute teacher - Rome, Italy
Responsible for overviewing daily course material with students.
Organised lesson structure, provided students with guidance.
Handed out and monitored tests and exams.
Maintained a daily log for the class’ permanent professor and report any mishaps at end-of-day.
Giu 2010
Abercrombie & Fitch
Cashier & Impact Team member - Tokyo, Japan
Cashier for Abercrombie & Fitch in Tokyo’s glamorous Ginza district.
Assisted with Abercrombie store grand opening.
In charge of hiring process for new Abercrombie staff.
Responsible for assigning shifts to new staff members and ensuring staff availability.
Scuole
Il mio sfondo accademico
Giu 2009
East Asian Studies (specialist), World History (minor)
University of Toronto - Toronto, Canada
Honors Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Studies (language of focus: Japanese).
Received Anne Marjorie Beer Scholarship in 2008 (In-course award for academic performance).
Two-time president of Margaret Addison Hall, University of Toronto Student Residence (2006 & 2008).
Lug 2008
Japanese Language Summer Program
Nihon University - Tokyo, Japan
Summer course in Japanese for intermediate learners.
Lug 2009
Korean Language Summer Program
Seoul National University - Seoul, South Korea
Summer accelerated course in Korean for beginners.
Lug 2010
Japanese Language Program
Keio University - Tokyo, Japan
Single year accelerated course in Japanese for advanced learners.
Tirocini
Esperienze di stage e tirocini
Ago 2009
The Korea Herald
English Copy Editor for News Team - Seoul, South Korea
Checked for lexical & grammatical errors in Korean journalists’ articles.
Double-checked facts and assisted with research.
Checked beta print publication for mistakes, redundancies and inaccurate phrasing.
Ago 2008
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
Risk Management Intern - New York, U.S.A.
Assessed social and environmental risks in order to avoid huge data losses and halting of development projects.
Monitored and proposed countermeasures to potential 9/11 style attacks.
Translated documents from Mitsubushi’s Tokyo branch into English.
Premi
Momenti d'orgoglio
Ott 2012
Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade
Government of the Republic of Korea - Seoul, South Korea
Silver medalist for essay contest on international image of South Korea. (http://bit.ly/UU7FOr)
Lug 2011
The Korea Times & the Northeast Asia History Foundation
Two time essay contest prize winner - Seoul, South Korea
Silver medalist (November, 2010)
Notable entry (July, 2011)
Open Online Courses
Always challenging myself to learn
Feb 2019
Deep Learning - Nanodegree Program
Udacity - Online
Deep learning is driving advances in artificial intelligence that are changing our world. The course covered Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Networks, Generative Adversarial Networks, model deployment and more using PyTorch. The course instructors include: Sebastian Thrun, Ian Goodfellow, Jun-Yan Zhu, and Andrew Trask.
Mag 2017
Artificial Intelligence - Nanodegree Program
Udacity - Online
This course teaches the foundations of AI with Sebastian Thrun, Peter Norvig, and Thad Starner. It covers Game-Playing, Search, Optimization, Probabilistic AIs, and Hidden Markov Models. Projects include a Sudoku solver, a Pacman game that uses search to travel through a maze, a planning agent to determine air cargo transport systems and a word recognizer for American Sign Language video sequences, using probabilistic models.
Ago 2016
Algorithmic Toolbox
University of California, San Diego and Higher School of Economics - Coursera
The course covers algorithmic techniques and ideas for computational problems arising frequently in practical applications: sorting and searching, divide and conquer, greedy algorithms and dynamic programming. This course also covers how sorting data helps for searching; how to break a large problem into smaller pieces and solve them recursively; when it makes sense to proceed greedily and how dynamic programming is used in genomic studies.
Apr 2015
Text Retrieval and Search Engines
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign - Coursera
This course covers search engine technologies, which play an important role in data mining nowadays. It investigates how search engines and recommender systems work. Concepts such as stemming, 'bag of words', probability ranking, Vector Space Model, Term Frequency (TF), Inverse Document Frequency (IDF), pivoted length normalization, BM25, Unigram Language Model, Rocchio algorithm, PageRank, HITS, and many other concepts (along with their benefits and weaknesses) are discussed.
Apr 2013
Computing for Data Analysis
Johns Hopkins University - Coursera
In this course students learn programming in R, reading data into R, creating data graphics, accessing and installing R packages, writing R functions, debugging and organizing R code.
Apr 2013
Programming Languages
University of Washington - Coursera
This course investigates the basic concepts behind programming languages, with a strong emphasis on the techniques and benefits of functional programming along with many other topics, such as modularity and the complementary benefits of static and dynamic typing. Languages used in this course include SML (functional programming), Racket (multi-paradigm) and Ruby (object oriented).
Blog
Una raccolta dei miei pensieri
Inside the Neural Network — a brief introduction
Deep Learning has taken the world by storm in recent years. Whereas computer algorithms were already able to beat the leading world chess players in the late ‘80s, the most famous success story being the victory of Deep Blue over then World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, other games...
Setting up Ansible for hourly Rails log rotation
Logs are an important part of any web application. Too few logs make debugging issues a problem. On the flip-side, too many logs can make a disk max out of space, or finding a specific error harder than it should be.
I was recently tasked with setting up hourly log rotation for a server...
Short treatise on why to become a remote developer
Forget everything you’ve been told about working the standard 9 to 5 and do yourself a favor, read this.
The Industrial Revolution commenced in Europe in the mid 18th and lasted until the early 19th century. This phase in human history saw millions of people...
Depth First Search, Breadth First Search and A* Search - a quick guide
What is the most efficient way for an army to traverse a battlefield given a river blocking one portion of the terrain, a hill blocking visibility in another portion and a wall in yet another? What is the quickest way to travel from London to Cambridge? Finding the shortest path from point A...
Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search — a summary
The article, written by the DeepMind Team, explains how a Go playing program was developed based on a combination of deep neural networks and tree search. This AI consistently played at a...
Come aggiornare PostgreSQL da versione 9.5 a 9.6 su Ubuntu 16.04
Mentre stavo aggiornando vari software sul mio droplet di DigitalOcean, ho notato che c'era una versione più recente di PostgreSQL 🐘 ed ho dunque deciso di migrare le mie app di Rails così che potessero usufruire di quest'ultima release del popolare database opensource.
Inizialmente...
Let full-text search structure your content for you
If one wished to find a book in a library before the digital age, one would seek a librarian and request the book either by title or by author. The librarian would then go through stacks of books and retrieve the desired text. If one knew that the library organized its books by ISBN, one might...
On the legitimacy of Dokdo
Dokdo is an island comprised of two islets, Dongdo (East islet) and Seodo (West islet). This small plot of land is located in the East Sea and is almost equidistant from Japan and Korea. Several other names have been ascribed to Dokdo as foreign countries encountered these rocks: in 1849, the...
