Tomas Della Vedova
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Elastic
Greater Udine Metropolitan Area Italy
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Top SchoolTomas Della Vedova is a Senior Software Engineering Manager with 12 years of experience leading global teams to build high-throughput authentication, authorization, and user systems at Elastic. He balances hands-on technical acumen in high-performance Node.js tooling—co-leading the Fastify framework and contributing core pieces like the ultra-fast router and fast-json-stringify—with thoughtful leadership that prioritizes operational excellence and team wellbeing. Tomas has delivered systems handling tens of thousands of requests per minute and millions per second at the control plane level, while fostering inclusive teams across eight time zones. He favors a "progress over perfection" approach to ship impactful, user-centered improvements and is passionate about developer experience and open source performance optimizations. An often-overlooked strength is his blend of low-level protocol work (contributions to undici) with product-facing observability and documentation tooling (fastify-swagger), enabling both robust infrastructure and great DX.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Liceo Indirizzo Scientifico Tecnologico, Diploma Liceo Indirizzo Scientifico Tecnologico at I.S.I.S. A. Malignani UdineTecnologie Web e Multimediali Tecnologie Web e Multimediali, Tecnologie Web e Multimediali Tecnologie Web e Multimediali at Università degli Studi di UdineComputer Science, Computer Science at Chalmers University of Technology
English, Italian
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Github Skills (43)
fastify10
json10
javascript10
schema-validation10
apidoc10
clientside10
es6-promise10
amazon-elasticsearch10
testing10
command-line-interface10
http10
swagger10
elasticsearchquery10
api10
aws-elasticsearch10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
delvedor/find-my-way
Apr 2017 - Dec 2021
A crazy fast HTTP router
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:66 releases, 60 reviews, 253 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Tomas implemented the core functionality of a high-performance HTTP router. Their primary contribution was the initial implementation of the router, including methods for route registration and lookup. The user also added comprehensive tests for various routing scenarios including static, parametric, wildcard, and versioned routes. Finally, they refactored internal components and added shorthand methods for ease of use.
http-routerrouterspeedradix-tree
fastify/fastify
Oct 2016 - Oct 2022
Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:109 releases, 90 reviews, 790 commits in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Tomas contributed to the development of the Fastify web framework by implementing features such as support for POST and PUT methods, custom parsers, and enhanced error handling mechanisms. Their work included the creation of route options, improving the internal routing logic, and refactoring of code to enhance maintainability. The user also added test coverage for the new features to ensure the reliability and stability of the framework.
nodejsweb-frameworkwebframeworkperformancespeed
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