Danilo Del Busso
Senior Software Engineer at IP House
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDanilo Del Busso is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years' experience building cloud-native services, secure desktop applications, and large-scale platforms for global customers. He has delivered high-throughput cloud services on Azure supporting hundreds of thousands of devices, co-architected a full-stack IP protection platform on AWS, and helped maintain million-line .NET systems at Citrix while owning multi-language SDKs and CI/CD improvements. An active contributor to Xen-related open source, he’s improved the XenAPI server and XenCenter backend—work that touches virtualization tooling used across enterprises. Based in Edinburgh, he blends hands-on backend engineering with platform and DevOps fluency, frequently stepping into rapid-response roles for performance and reliability incidents. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who pairs product-minded engineering with attention to secure, maintainable code.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School Degree Scientific Studies, High School Degree Scientific Studies at Liceo Scientifico Alberto RomitaBSc (Hons) Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) with a Year in Industry, BSc (Hons) Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) with a Year in Industry at King's College London
Italian, English
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Github Skills (14)
xapi10
powershell10
code-generation10
api10
sdk10
csharp10
apidoc10
dotnet-core10
migration9
migrate9
json-rpc9
refactoring8
ocaml8
refactor8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
xenserver/xenadmin
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
XenCenter, the Windows management console for XenServer
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:571 reviews, 200 commits, 146 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Danilo primarily contributed to the back-end logic of XenCenter. They focused on adding and modifying features related to virtual machine export, migration, and cloning. Their work involved modifying existing code, adding support for features like passwordless certificates and source host/pool mentions, and adjusting descriptions and messaging within the application. The user also made some refactoring changes to improve code quality.
windows
xapi-project/xen-api
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
The Xapi Project's XenAPI Server
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:116 reviews, 36 commits, 40 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Danilo primarily worked on the XenAPI server, focusing on improving code quality and maintainability. Their contributions involved replacing negative language in error messages within the datamodel, fixing typos, and removing XML RPC mentions from the C# SDK. They also made significant updates to the C# and PowerShell SDKs, including removing WinForms usage, generating NuGet package specs, and improving web request property initialization.
xapi
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