Giovanni Bucci
Senior Software Engineer at Node.js
Tresigallo, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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Top SchoolGiovanni Bucci is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building backend and full‑stack systems, currently working at Geotab and contributing as a Node.js core collaborator. Based in Italy, he combines production-grade engineering with open-source impact—having improved Node.js networking and test coverage and contributed Instant Answer integrations to DuckDuckGo. He has led teams and shipped mobility platform features as a tech lead at fleetster and applied his full‑stack skills across startups and consultancies. A mechanical‑keyboard enthusiast and perpetual Linux distro hopper, he brings practical curiosity and a taste for continuous improvement to both codebases and developer tooling.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Informatics, Informatics at Università degli Studi di Ferrara
Italian, English
Github Skills (19)
duckduckgo10
javascript10
handlebars10
testing10
perl10
network-programming10
instant-view10
nodejs10
instantsearch10
test-automation10
assertion9
apim9
regex9
ipv69
api9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies
Nov 2014 - Apr 2015
DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on Perl & JavaScript
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:105 commits, 8 PRs, 98 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Giovanni primarily worked on the `DDG/zeroclickinfo-goodies` repository, modifying and refining the "PercentOf" Instant Answer (IA) code. Their commits focused on improving the functionality of the IA, including adding features, fixing regex, and updating the code to improve calculation accuracy. They also made some changes, likely to remove a now obsolete twitter account and improved code formatting.
javascriptperlinstant-answersduckduckgo
duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice
Nov 2014 - Mar 2015
DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on JavaScript (JSON) APIs
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:83 commits, 5 PRs, 34 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Giovanni primarily contributed to the development of "Spice" features for the DuckDuckGo Instant Answers platform, focusing on integrating various APIs and data sources. This involved creating JavaScript files and Handlebars templates to render dynamic content within the search results. The user also worked on backend logic, as seen in the creation of Perl files, managing data retrieval, and defining triggers for the instant answers.
javascriptinstant-answersperlduckduckgohandlebars-js
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