Gian Luca Buoncompagni

Engineering Manager and Front End Specialist

I'm a web front end specialist and engineering manager with more than 20 years of experience, focused on fast and responsive web sites and applications for desktop and mobile devices. As a team leader I managed and worked with remote and distributed international development teams.

Currently I'm Head of front end at Tailoor in Milan, Italy.

Selected Previous Works

  • Vivaticket
    In charge of shaping the client side development of the new international B2C portal vivaticket.com and and the management of the development team.Integration with existing ticketing engine systems and coordination with international development teams. Analysis and development of the web based tool for editorial management and commercial planning of the portal contents.
  • Il Fatto Quotidiano
    Redesign and front end development of main website and special editorial projects for web and mobile. Performance improvement and manteinance.

Personal Projects

  • Impicciato
    Hangman-like mobile game, built with react.js
  • Ai-translator
    AI proof of concept, based on Google's Cloud Vision and Translate APIs
  • Studio Pym
    Website for an editorial office in Milan, with custom CMS based on Wordpress
  • NanoScore
    Interactive mobile music score editor based on abc music notation

Previous projects for different web agencies include, among others, many international clients such as LAVAZZA (tablet and mobile version of 2014 calendar, hybrid app for Android and Ios),FERRARI (Launch website for Formula 1 F138 singleseater), KINDER (entire international network of local corporate websites).

Skills

HTML5 & CSS3, javascript (ES6) and major front end libraries (ReactJs, VueJs). Extensive knowledge of cross-browser development and performance issues on different platforms and devices, mobile development, principles of UX design,usability and accessibility, information architecture, SEO practices and code optimization. Knowledge of server side languages and technologies (Nodejs, Express, Php and MySql).

Technologies

React, Vue and major front end libraries. Rest APIs, css-in-js and css processors, code versioning (GIT, GITFlow), unit and integration tests (Jest, Cypress), agile methodology (SCRUM, Kanban), CI/CD on microservices architecture.

Resume

You can view or download my italian resume (an english version is also available) or visit my profile page on LinkedIn or GitHub.

Contacts

gbuonc[at]gmail[dot]com