Felice Geracitano Software Engineer Software architecture and hands-on delivery Milan, Italy felice.geracitano@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/felicegeracitano github.com/FeliceGeracitano PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Software engineer with 12+ years: build and deployment automation at IBM, high-traffic frontend work at Ryanair, Viasat in-flight entertainment and Utmost SaaS, then technical leadership on e-commerce and healthcare platforms. Focused on software architecture, legacy modernization, and hands-on delivery from services to cloud infrastructure. Most recent role: Engineering Manager, still active in architecture and code. TECHNICAL SKILLS Architecture: Legacy modernization, multi-tenant systems, API design, performance engineering Development: Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, FastAPI, Django, Node.js, React, Next.js, GraphQL, Java, Kotlin Cloud and delivery: Amazon Web Services (AWS), ECS, EKS, Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Docker, Kubernetes, Argo CD, GitHub Actions, canary releases Data: PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB Reliability and testing: Datadog, Grafana, New Relic, k6, Jest, Cypress, Puppeteer, WebdriverIO, Lighthouse, end-to-end testing PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Rue Gilt Groupe Technical Lead / Engineering Manager (Contract) 2023 - Present Progressed from Technical Lead to Engineering Manager, retaining hands-on architecture and coding responsibilities across backend, frontend, iOS, and Android delivery. Worked closely with Product to shape the technical roadmap, prioritize initiatives, and align delivery with business goals. - Leading the incremental replacement of a 15+ year-old storefront monolith with an asynchronous Python service using FastAPI and Uvicorn on AWS ECS. Extracting modules with the strangler fig pattern and zero-downtime cutovers. - Implementing reproducible infrastructure with Terraform, AWS CDK, and CloudFormation. Verifying migration parity through black-box tests, k6 load tests, Datadog monitoring, and canary releases. - Delivered social sign-up improvements that increased registration rates by 23% on Gilt and 14% on Rue La La, representing approximately USD 6 million in annualized demand. - Built an in-house passwordless registration and login system that reduced customer contacts related to login issues. - Delivered a steady stream of third-party integrations across the full funnel, from discovery to checkout and post-purchase, on both client and server side, prioritized by business need to sustain rapid growth. - Rebuilt end-to-end automation across web and iOS; introduced AI-assisted development workflows and generated tests to support implementation and migration verification. Therapie Clinic Technical Lead (Contract) 2021 - 2023 Led a team of 5+ engineers, contributed to hiring, and worked with product and engineering teams on architecture and delivery priorities. - Delivered a Stripe-based payment platform across e-commerce, call-centre, and in-clinic channels. Processed over EUR 50 million in its first 10 months, reaching 40,000 transactions per month at peak. - Enabled US expansion by reusing the multi-tenant architecture built for Ireland and the UK, including call-centre, payment, scheduling, and front-of-house systems, with minimal rework. - Modernized the customer relationship management (CRM) platform incrementally through an AWS-hosted GraphQL API handling peaks of 10 million requests per month. Built a React frontend integrated into call-centre and clinic workflows; the first release reduced handling time by 20 seconds per agent. - Deployed a Twilio cloud call centre through infrastructure as code, handling over 70,000 tasks per week at peak. Skills-based task routing improved handling time by up to 20% during peak periods. Utmost Senior Frontend Engineer 2019 - 2020 - Contributed to workforce management applications and a consultant-facing client application using TypeScript, React, and GraphQL. Worked across frontend architecture, routing, bundle splitting, deployment tooling, and a component library documented and tested with Storybook. - Built custom analytics and data-visualization features, including charts, maps, and dashboards, and contributed to Kotlin/Spring Boot endpoints for tracing application events and performance data. HBC Technical Lead / Senior Software Engineer 2018 - 2019 - Led three engineers on frontend performance across four e-commerce sites. Built monitoring with Grafana, InfluxDB, Lighthouse, Puppeteer, and WebPageTest; deployed on AWS EKS with Argo CD. - Optimized asset delivery, removed unused JavaScript, and added automated pull-request checks to flag bundle growth. Viasat Senior Frontend Engineer 2018 - Developed an in-flight entertainment product from scratch, including a customizable video player supporting digital rights management (DRM) streaming, content management features, and end-to-end, integration, and performance testing pipelines. Ryanair Labs Frontend Engineer 2017 - 2018 - Frontend engineer on ryanair.com, Europe’s largest airline by passengers. Delivered features across the full booking funnel, from landing pages to checkout, and built end-to-end features for Ryanair Rooms, the accommodation product. - Rewrote the flight check-in flow on Redux, moving a core booking path to modern state management. - Optimized critical-path API calls, cutting load time of booked-trip pages by around 40%. Investigated production issues with New Relic. IBM Software Engineer 2015 - 2017 - Built deployment automation and integrations for SugarCRM. Contributed mainly to the AngularJS frontend of My Sales Activity, a greenfield sales CRM for IBM business partners with a Node.js/Express backend on IBM Cloud. Added automated tests and mentored colleagues and interns. Marketing & Telematica Full Stack Developer 2013 - 2014 - Contributed to building a geographic information system for marketing analysis using Java J2EE, MySQL, GeoServer, Ext JS, and the Google Maps SDK. SELECTED PROJECTS TupleBase VS Code extension for discovering, inspecting, and querying datastores, built for humans and AI agents. https://tuplebase.app Micehub As founding engineer, built a medical conference ticketing platform from scratch using Next.js, PostgreSQL, and Stripe. Supported around a dozen events and processed tens of thousands of euros in ticket payments before leaving the project. Talk Data To Me Co-created a product for querying data sources through natural language using AWS and OpenAI technologies. Webperf Dashboard Web performance dashboard powered by Lighthouse. https://github.com/FeliceGeracitano/webperf-dashboard EDUCATION BSc in Computer Science University of Milan, Milan 2010 - 2014 LANGUAGES English: Professional Italian: Native