Giacomo Guiulfo Knell

Led the process of internationalization (i18n) and localization of our applications across various platforms in order to onboard thousands of users in new markets. Owned the development of our CRM’s corporate offering which enables brands to manage communications, media assets, onboarding, and compensation of their affiliates and see analytics of their sellers’ performance. Enhanced search functionality app-wide by switching from SQL to Elasticsearch, thus providing users with a faster and more powerful experience. Worked mainly with Ruby, Rails, Javascript, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch and AWS.

Developed Kubernetes controllers, command-line utilities and other software in Go for the on-prem Google Kubernetes Engine distribution.

Worked as part of the Apple Maps deployment and infrastructure tools team that supports all production deployments to bare metal, VMs, and containerized infrastructure offerings. Architected a fully automated solution for GitOps-driven deployments to Kubernetes clusters to increase developer and SRE productivity. Engineered a dependency update automation system to keep software packages up-to-date and remove manual engineering work across the organization. Developed a company-wide gamification platform to enable healthy iOS, macOS, and watchOS bug-filling competition. Worked with Ruby, Rails, Javascript, Stimulus, Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Kubernetes.