Giuseppe Gurgone
Software Engineer · Vienna, Austria · Remote in European-friendly time zones
contact@ggurgone.com
Profile
Senior software engineer building SDKs, developer tools, AI engineering tools and web experiences. I work mainly with TypeScript, Node.js and React, and I'm open to other languages when needed. I enjoy improving developer and user experiences and building things others can build on. I've worked independently, on product teams and in open source, including working in public and collaborating remotely and asynchronously.
Running my own business has made me pragmatic about priorities and tradeoffs and comfortable working with business owners and leadership. I'm looking for a role where I can help mentoring, shape developer tools or user-facing products I'd use, like social networks or creative tools, and improve them over time with a team.
Open Source and Experimental Work
- Built Continuo, an extensible AI harness built on Pi Durable, with long-term memory, background threads and plugin APIs for the server and terminal.
- Built oltre, a persistent remote development box solution for coding agents with sandbox and credential boundaries.
- Built Yourturn, an agent skill for interactive explainers and guided code reviews, with feedback returned to the agent.
- Built an AI SDK provider for Codex subscriptions, with protocol adaptation and configurable authentication and credential storage.
- Co-authored and maintained styled-jsx, the CSS-in-JS solution included with Next.js.
- Core maintainer of SUIT CSS; contributed to React Native for Web, Next.js and other projects.
- Built ghbrain, a personal project that turns merged GitHub pull requests into datasets for coding models and agents, with checks and model-based evaluation of generated changes.
- Built Previeweet, a browser extension that added inline media previews to Twitter in 2011, before the feed supported them.
Experience
Independent Engineer and Consultant
Jun 2020 – Present · Remote
Work across developer tools, SDKs, testing infrastructure and AI-driven interfaces. Collaborate directly with clients on project direction, technical decisions and delivery.
- Webstudio: Built an early AI UI generation and editing prototype in 2023, letting users create sections and edit designs with natural language. Designed model workflows that validate generated output before applying deterministic changes to the editor.
- AMBOSS: Improved testing infrastructure and CI for an engineering organization of more than 70 people. Reduced overall CI time by roughly 40–50% and a Cypress suite from over 18 minutes to around 6–7 minutes.
- GetDX: Built the initial version of an embedding SDK to explore how customers could integrate GetDX functionality into their products.
- DatoCMS: Helped build its structured text solution.
- Babel tooling: Optimized a client's Babel plugin, making it 5× faster.
- Rapidpages: Built an experimental pipeline that rendered streamed AI output as interactive React interfaces.
- WorkGenius: Conducted technical interviews and assessed engineering candidates for client roles.
- Art projects: Worked with international artists to conceive and develop unconventional blockchain art projects.
Senior Frontend Engineer · PSPDFKit (now Nutrient.io)
Apr 2017 – Jun 2020 · Remote / Vienna
Developed a JavaScript SDK and PDF viewer embedded in customer products, working on a web team of roughly 2–6 engineers.
- Designed and delivered a large share of the SDK's features, coordinating with backend, PDF engine and design teams. Contributed to 71 public SDK releases.
- Built the client-side synchronization for real-time collaboration and improved performance through virtualized rendering, code splitting and faster WebAssembly startup.
- Designed SDK APIs, wrote technical documentation, supported customer integrations and mentored engineers.
Senior Frontend Engineer · Grape
Oct 2016 – Mar 2017 · Vienna
Worked on the web chat client.
JavaScript Engineer, Contract · Automattic
Apr 2016 – Jun 2016 · Remote
Built a tool to collect usage statistics for React components.
Frontend Engineer · Yelp
Apr 2014 – May 2016 · San Francisco
- Worked on Yelp's public style guide and rebuilt user-facing experiences including photo and video galleries, user profiles and Yelp Talk.
- Mentored and onboarded new engineers and interns.
Lead Frontend Developer · Graduateland
Apr 2012 – Apr 2014 · Copenhagen
Rebuilt the frontend around reusable components, supporting the main job portal and 15 university-branded portals from a shared platform.
Independent Fullstack Developer
Nov 2010 – Jan 2012
Built web projects for clients, including San Raffaele University Hospital in Milan.
Education and languages
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, University of Catania, with a research thesis in security.
English: fluent · Italian: native
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