Giuliano Bossi Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

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• App data storage & synchronization• Development tools & education• Search & personalizationand more.

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• As part of the Management Team, contribute to the success of the company overall• Mentoring engineers and tech leads with various degrees of experience• Shaping the Engineering department as a learning organization and establishing a practiceof continuous experimentation

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 articulated in terms of:• 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• Supporting product management/technology leadership in defining, sizing and prototyping new products by solving specific, challenging technical issues and related business problems• Working with Director of Software Engineering and Chief Technology Officer to drive definition of Points' Technology RoadmapThe technology stack ranged from enterprise Java to a RESTful API platform built on top of Python/Flask and CouchDB.

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 related to technology, programming techniques, processes, best practices and methodologies. A partial list of accomplishments would include:• 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• Implementation of an efficient code review process• Implementation of automated build and deploy procedures for various release artifacts• Implementation of a pipeline for continuous delivery• Implementation of ticket-tracking systems to aid development planning and supportAmong my varied responsibilities I coached and mentored other developers and co-ops interns, I was Garner Distributed Workflow's resident Devops and security expert and I was also instrumental for SRED claims for the previous 3 years.

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 teams were working with our own home-grown XP flavour, constantly evolving and refining the process to better suit the needs of the company.Initially hired as a Systems Software Architect, I helped the development team refining its practices and principles, while contributing to J2EE solutions and testing methodologies (e.g.: based on JUnit and FIT framework).

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 and technologies. I was responsible for software development method choices and lastly for 3 teams, one of whom applied XP since 2001.

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 derivative markets, home banking, ECN and settlement instructions. Typical architectures were based on a J2EE environment, integrated with Corba middleware and Oracle Advanced Queueing.I ended my experience with Banca IMI by starting and coaching the first Italian XP team.

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 Client/Server architecture under Windows NT, developed with Visual C/C++ & SQL Server on the server side, PowerBuilder, Excel & Visual Basic on the client side.

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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 design.

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.