I come from Scotland, I'm gay, and I live in Milan in Italy.
I'm a Staff Software Engineer at Subito.it, an online marketplace – the biggest in Italy and a part of Adevinta – in the frontend: 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 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.
More recently I have worked in an enabling and coordinating role, working with my colleages in the product teams to boost their delivery; harmonise, evolve and maintain standards and resolve technical problems that have an impact outside of just one team.
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 try to write better JS than the minimal level possibile 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 and aligning with what it offers.
I'm a student at the Dante Alighieri Society and am studying towards a C1 exam.