I'm a senior software engineer from Scotland, I'm gay, and I live in Milan in Italy.
I work for Subito.it, an online marketplace – the biggest in Italy – and as a front-end developer, strong not just on JS but HTML and CSS from a career I started at 19 years old in 2014 as an apprentice.
Since joining the company, I've worked on rebuilding the front-end of the listing and detail pages, and rolling out a rebrand of the site; enhancing performance both as a key focus and as part of business as usual, developing various search features (including a radius search on a map) and running A/B tests to improve specific pieces of the UI.
I have quite a bit of experience conducting technical interviews, starting from experience at the BBC, and I have been able to continue in Subito for a number of rounds of hiring. I enjoy interviewing, and try both to make sure that we get the information that we need about the candidate and that the candidate has a positive experience.
I've recently started to focus on writing better JS, with a focus on a maximal use of the language and its vocabulary and syntax to get more runtime guarantees from the code. I've also doubled-down on Next.js and on trying to get as much out of the framework as possible, reducing custom implementations where possible.
I'm a student at the Dante Alighieri Society and am studying towards a C1 exam.