Giuseppe Gurgone

Profile

With 16 years of experience as a software engineer and technical lead for teams of 2โ€“8 engineers in the web industry, I bring strong systems design, analytical, and communication skills to help organizations define and deliver scalable, high-value solutions. Iโ€™ve worked in both corporate (e.g., Yelp Inc.) and startup environments.

Residence: Vienna, Austria
Languages: English (fluent), Italian (mother tongue)

๐•: @giuseppegurgone
web: giuseppegurgone.com
gh: github.com/giuseppeg | gsppe

Experience

  • Independent Engineer and Consultant

    Since 2020, I have been working as an independent consultant and engineer, focusing on web tooling and infrastructure, technical oversight, and leading engineering teams. I also have experience with blockchain technology and applied AI (e.g., agents).

    Below are some of the work I did in the past years:
    • Built an AI user interface generation solution for Webstudio.is โ€“ the open source no-code website design tool.
    • Worked with AMBOSS Engineering to improve their testing infrastructure and Quality Engineering processes.
    • Helped DatoCMS building their structured text (documents) solution.
    • Built an SDK for getdx.com's embedding functionality
    • Worked on an optimization for a Babel plugin that made it 5x faster resulting in considerable increase in development speed for the client.
    • Worked with international artists to conceive and develop high-end, non-speculative and unconventional blockchain art projects

  • Freelancer, WorkGenius (formerly Experlead.de)

    Vetted member of Expertlead's senior freelance engineering network, later acquired by WorkGenius. Worked on freelance consulting engagements and supported technical screening and evaluation of engineering candidates for client staffing.

    - Conducted technical interviews and candidate assessments for engineering freelancers and client roles - Worked with AMBOSS Engineering (client) to improve testing infrastructure and Quality Engineering processes - Delivered freelance consulting projects across engineering initiatives

  • Senior Web Engineer, PSPDFKit GmbH (Remote/Vienna, AT)

    PSPDFKit for Web is a rich and complex web application (SDK and PDF viewer) built with a modern stack: React, modern EcmaScript, FlowType, CSS Modules, WebAssembly, Elixir, Redux, ImmutableJS, Jest, Puppeteer, react-testing-library.

    Responsibilities:
    • Architecture, APIs and Features design, writing proposals/RFCs and development
    • Hiring and Mentoring
    • Direct Technical Customer Support
    • Technical Writing
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    Achievements:

    • Worked on and shipped 71 public releases of the SDK with a team size that over time fluctuated between 2 and 6
    • Led roughly 50% of the features' technical design, developent and project management (including cross-teams coordination)
    • Implemented the client-side part of a long polling-based synchronization system that the SDK uses for realtime collaboration
    • Implemented high-impact performance optimizations in the SDK including an initial code-splitting strategy for server and standalone (WebAssembly) based installations, improved the loading time of standalone (WebAssembly) installations, virtualized document rendering
    • created a real-world WebAssembly benchmark
    • successfully on-boarded and mentored three engineers (on a team of seven)
    • helped refining the hiring process for web engineers

  • Senior Frontend Engineer, Grape GmbH (Vienna, AT)

    Engineer in the Grape Web Chat client team.

  • Trial/Contractor JavaScript Engineer, Automattic Inc. (Remote)

    Did an on contract project for Automattic Inc. โ€“ the company behind WordPress.com

    Implemented a tool to collect usage stats for React (UI) components.

  • Frontend Engineer, Yelp Inc. (San Francisco, USA)

    Engineer in the product (web) team.

    Responsibilities:
    • Maintain and improve the codebase for all of Yelpโ€™s user-facing sites
    • Mentor new hires and interns
    • Maintain Yelp's Styleguide
    • Code in Python, JavaScript, SCSS and HTML
    • Write Unit and Selenium tests

    Achievements:

    • Rebuilt the photo and video galleries pages for yelp.com
    • Revamped the frontend for yelp.com/talk
    • Worked on and shipped the new user profiles on yelp.com
    • Led many of the decisions about Yelp's public style guide
    • Successfully onboarded and mentored two interns and two new hires
    • On my second year I joined Yelp's team leaders community

  • Solo Lead Frontend Developer, Graduateland ApS (Copenhagen, DK)

    Led the frontend development of the previous version of Graduateland, the largest job portal for students and graduates in Europe.

    Responsible for the design and development of a large scale platform which consists of graduateland.com and the job portals of 15 universities.

    Achievements:
    • Rebuilt the frontend architecture of the platform from the ground up, introducing modular CSS, JavaScript and HTML components
    • Scaled the UI system to adapt and fit 15 branded copies of the job portal site
    • Designed and built a PJAX-like based navigation system

  • Independent Fullstack Developer

    Worked on a number of private client projects including sanraffaele.it which is a top of the class university hospital in Milan, Italy.

Education

  • Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, University of Catania (Italy)

    Research thesis in security: WATA 3.0 design and implementation of a remote correction tool for authentic but anonymously written exams.