Giuliano Bossi Email & Phone Number

Ottawa, ON, CA

Ottawa, ON, CA

• I lead all Engineering disciplines (backend, frontend and mobile) for App Platform. This means that I am responsible for the execution of 12 teams (70+ people) operating along various dimensions, most notably:
• App infrastructure & controls
• App capabilities and extensibility frameworks
• Our own app store
• API patterns & principles
• Merchant experience of apps

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• My job consisted in leading the effort related to modernize, transform and generally improve the Engineering department in the following areas:
• Software Development and Delivery efficiency
• Implementing a mixed FP-OOP backend approach based on the Scala stack
• Defining and implementing an architecture based on RESTful APIs and Single PageApplications built with AngularJS
• Effective collaboration between Development and Operations
• Monitoring and providing capacity planning tools to the Management Team at large

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• I was in charge of providing technical, architectural and product delivery leadership and mentoring to 7 Agile development teams at Points, the leading provider of SaaS/PaaS solutions for Loyalty Programs. This was.
• Building consensus on a shared technical and architectural view based on a cluster of RESTful micro-services
• Managing a team of Principal Engineers assigned to various R&D activities
• Promoting knowledge sharing and code reuse at all levels
• Focusing on continuous productivity improvements related to practices, code, libraries, frameworks and technologies
• Facilitating the adoption of DevOps practices by Dev and Ops teams

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• A bit of a coach, a bit of a technologist, a bit of leadership, lots of bits of process improvement, energy and passion devoted to design, refactoring, testing, XP...I was responsible for all improvement initiatives.
• Introduction of Scala and the establishment of a process to migrate the existing code base to Scala from Java
• Implementation of a near-time asynchronous database replication solution based on Terracotta
• Design and implementation of a build farm for continuous integration and test based on Hudson/Jenkins
• Introduction and broad adoption of several testing techniques, like javascript unit testing, functional testing based on Selenium, mock-based and stub-based testing
• Introduction of static code analysis based on PMD and home-grown tools

As an author, I was in charge of a quite successful online course on TDD (see videos linked here).As a cofounder, I participated in all activities, with focus on managing authors, being an editor and helping with all phases of screencast production.

I took care of the "Software Engineering" category at stacktrace.it, e-zine for Italian speaking geeks.

I was responsible for the development and evolution of the entire solution suite, which included a Swing-based client, several Web applications implemented in a J2EE architecture and a rule-based decision engine at its core. I also helped the team to transition to a more agile process, starting from establishing its own testing practices.

I was in charge of all software development and QA activities for CPNI, a startup operating in the mobile payments space. My responsibilities included defining the software development method, practices and principles, and bringing projects to completion, starting from inception coming from Product Management and ending with delivery to Operations. The.

Technology Director and XP Coach at Quinary, system integrator of the Tiscali group, focused on J2EE and.Net multi-channel applications. I have successfully coached teams on several customer’s projects mainly in finance and telecommunications, applying and evolving XP in all cases. As a manager I contributed to defining and applying the company strategies.

In charge of an R&D unit of Banca IMI, one of the most important Italian investment banks. The group consisted of developers, software architects and project managers. I designed and coordinated the development of Web applications for institutional and retail customers such as online trading and price distribution through real push on equity, bond and.

Program manager and team leader of Bio-Tek Kontron Instruments, developing products to interface analytical systems like HPLCs for chemical and pharmaceutical industries.

Milan, Italy, IT

My responsibility involved the development of front-office instruments in trading, position keeping and portfolio simulation, as well as interfaces between front- and back-office. My position advanced from part-time consultant to technical manager, in charge of defining corporate technical choices and strategies. Typical solutions were based on a 3-tier.

US

Collaboration with Multigraphics, a software house developing architectural CAD systems. I worked on all development aspects of the suite, in C and C++ on Windows 3.1 and Extended DOS environments, with Visual C/C++, Watcom C/C++ & Btrieve. Here I developed my MS thesis, with the title: Study and implementation of a knowledge based system for interior.

Geneva, Geneva, CH

I worked for SGS Elsag (formerly known as SGS Informatica) on imaging and archiving applications in C to interface the information retrieval system, image storage and other components, both under UNIX and DOS platforms.