Michele Costa

Author of OSS libraries with thousands of downloads. Development of a Python library to generate a comprehensive dataset for a machine learning image classification system. Refactoring of a legacy Ruby/Rails application, raising throughput of 30% as a side effect. Development of micro-service facades, Ruby/Sinatra based, for a corporate intranet. Supporting a worldwide high-traffic e-commerce application, Ruby/Rails based: refactoring for technical debt payoff, design and prototyping of new features.

Development of an auto-translating Ruby/Rails service wrapping an external JavaScript APIs, exposed as a REST on MongoDB microservice component. Development of Ruby/Rails apps-store engine to control OSGi-equipped CPEs, exposed as REST on MongoDB microservice component. Development of Ruby/Rails RIA to provision small business IP-PBX switches. UI-design and development of Ruby/Rails portal for CPEs self-diagnosis. Writing of technical documents for ISO standards.

UI-design and development of Struts based wizard to provision Cisco enterprise IP-PBX switches. Development of JSE reflection-based framework to activate a layer of drivers.

UI-design and development of Web portals, intranet, CMS, advertising sites, e-commerce sites, corporate sites, interactive Flash interfaces (1998-2005). Contributor to the realization of MS JScript-based ORM framework (2001-2005). Case histories: AC Nielsen Spa, Alcoa Italia Inc, Canon Italia Spa, Gecam Spa, McKinsey & Company Italia, Mercedes Benz Italia Spa, Poste Italiane Spa.