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rapaccinim/README.md

Marco Rapaccini

Combining Tech, Business & Human skills

Tl;dr:

Technical co-founder with extensive software engineering background and proven track record in customer relations, seeking to leverage hands-on experience and refined sales acumen in a Solutions/Sales Engineer role.

What I Can Do

  • Problem Solving as a Service
  • Custom Software Development
  • IoT & Wearables Prototyping
  • Digital Transition Consulting
  • Tech Booster for Startups & SMEs
  • Web Applications Artisan

A Bit More About Me

  • I've been working in tech since 2016, wearing many hats: employee for SMEs and big organisations, contractor, startup cofounder
  • I consider myself a business enabler: I transform a vision into human-friendly, working technology
  • I am based in the Lake District, UK

Generalist Experience

  • Technical Co-Founder at Smart Ergonomics Ltd, 2024 - present
    • developing MVP of a smart ergonomic chair with sensors and dedicated mobile app to improve posture and wellbeing in the workplace
  • Technical Co-Founder and Director at Umbria Green Heart Ltd, 2023 - present
    • importing directly fine food and wine from Umbria, Italy into the UK
    • supply chain setup and management
    • warehouse compliance
    • Ruby on Rails custom software for import logistics, stock management and costs optimisation
    • e-commerce integration with stock management system
    • work-in-progress: expanding B2C sales while consolidating B2B relationships
  • Contract Technologist for LTE Italia srl, 2022 - present
    • budiling a custom security compliance management system for a railway logistics company
  • Technical Co-Founder at Clutch-e Bag, 2019 - present
    • built from scratch a FashionTech startup business + tech stack
    • created a wearable MVP
    • filed and obtained 4 patents in Italy no. 102018000003587, 102021000011681, 102021000016505 and 102021000016478
    • supply chain setup and management
    • managed 1-year-long engineering research and development
    • managed technology transfer towards aerospace customer

Specialist Experience

Citizens Advice (charity), Aug 2022 - Jun 2024

  • Senior Software Engineer at Citizens Advice
  • helping the Casebook team to maintain and improve the internal case management system of one of the largest charities in the UK, while respecting the privacy of the users
  • technologies: Ruby on Rails/Ruby, PostgreSQL, AWS, React, JavaScript, Cucumber, Jenkins, Accessibility Screen Readers (VoiceOver, NVDA, JAWS)
  • contributing regularly to Software Engineering Community of Practice meetings to explore new technologies
  • induction/mentoring new software engineers across different product teams
  • internal documentation reorganisation

Italian Folklore Museum

  • Amazon Alexa Skills development (contract work) for the Italian Folklore Museum, improving accessibility for visually impaired
  • technologies: Alexa Skills Kit SDK, Python, Node.js, Spreaker APIs

Transaction 360 Degrees LTD (FinTech)

  • Senior Software Engineer at Transaction 360 Degrees LTD
  • Aug 2020 - Sep 2022
  • Creating from scratch Fintech MVPs working closely with the business team and SW architect
  • R&D about new integrations (e.g. Symphony financial secure messaging app)
  • technologies: TypeScript, React, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Okta, Python
  • Moving to microservices architecture
  • Onboarding and mentoring new developers

Past Contract Web Development

Lacuna Solutions

  • Web UI Developer
  • Sep 2016 - Jul 2017

My Tech Stack So Far

  • MVC Frameworks
    • Ruby on Rails
    • Django
    • Laravel
  • Programming Languages
    • JavaScript/TypeScript
    • Ruby
    • PHP
    • Python
  • Databases
    • MySQL
    • PostgreSQL
    • Neo4j
  • Low-level Programming
    • C/C++
    • Arduino
  • JS Frameworks/Libraries/Environments
    • Node.js
    • React
    • Next.js
    • Express
    • Leaflet
    • jQuery
  • CRMs & Productivity Tools
    • ClickUp
    • SuiteCRM
    • Zoho
    • Monday.com
    • Notion
  • Other Languages
    • SQL
    • Bash Scripting
  • UI Libraries
    • TailwindCSS
    • MaterialUI
  • Cloud Technologies
    • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
    • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Version Control
    • Git/GitHub
  • Other Technologies
    • CMS WordPress
    • Amazon Alexa Skills

Education

Public Contributions

You can find here a list of my contributions and articles.

Human Languages

  • English
  • Italian (native language)
  • Spanish

Hobbies

Reading, Lego, Re-watching The Office (USA version), Hiking, Boxing

Let's connect

Have a nice day folks!

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  1. cf7-hook-4-amazon-sqs cf7-hook-4-amazon-sqs Public

    A simple PHP hook for getting data from Contact Form 7 (CF7) and send it to Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

    PHP

  2. react-leaflet-here-geocoding react-leaflet-here-geocoding Public

    Repo for playing with Leaflet for maps and HERE API for geocoding in React (TS) environment

    TypeScript

  3. scrollable-vanilla-modal scrollable-vanilla-modal Public

    HTML 2