Gino Notto | Staff Software Engineer

Hi, my name is Gino! I'm a Staff Software Engineer experienced in full stack web development. I spent five great years at Bloomberg, learning how to engineer large scale systems across a number of teams. I specialized in frontend development using React and NodeJS. Now I'm at a medical technology company focused on backend development.

While I use TypeScript/JavaScript and Python the most, I love learning new languages and technology. Software engineering is constantly evolving which means there's always something new and exciting to learn. I have used Java extensively and am familiar with C, C++, Swift. I'm fond of functional languages and would love to spend more time to become proficient in one or two of them.

I graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from University at Buffalo in 2016 but have been programming and interested in computing since I was in highschool. My first real program was a console version of Snake written in C++ when I was a Junior in high school. I find joy in getting to build something that hasn't been built before.

Outside of work I love to run and am currently training back up to a half marathon. I've also gotten into 3D printing and have been designing 3D models in CAD and Blender to print. I love tinkering with embedded systems and am currently working on a couple Arduino and RaspberryPi projects. I'm also an avid home cook and would love to hear your favorite recipes.

Thanks for checking my website! Check the links above if you are interested in my current resume or projects and learning I'm doing. Feel free to get in touch with me at the contact info above.

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Backend	Python / Flask / Postgres / Redis / OpenSearch / NGINX / GraphQL / SQL / NodeJS
Frontend	JavaScript / TypeScript / React / HTML5 / CSS / Tailwind / Cypress
Infrastructure	Kubernetes / AWS Services (Lambda, EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, Etc) / CI/CD via GithubActions / Celery / Docker
Tools	Git / Webpack / Pytest / Jest / Flask / ESLint / SQAlchemy

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Butterfly Network, Inc - Staff Software Engineer (2021 - Present)

Currently migrating an asynchronous job system to Celery to push medical images and information to hospital systems in a more scalable and observable way.
Participating in a cross-functional group tasked with setting the vision for cloud engineering, prioritizing technical debt, adopting new technologies, and addressing engineering issues.
Became a subject matter expert in DICOM, HL7, and FHIR to build and support systems that facilitate the transfer of medical information. Made changes to an open-source DICOM library to reduce the memory footprint by streaming large pixel data out of memory.
Proactively improved the customer experience by making key optimizations such as identifying, analyzing, and optimizing expensive queries on the critical path and in some cases completely migrating tables. Query performance improvements decreased response times from minutes to milliseconds.
Developed a CLI tool that enables developers to deploy their local code to an EKS cluster, significantly reducing cycle time. This tool speeds up debugging time from days to hours and allows live testing before merging into the main branch, helping to catch bugs and integration issues early.
Championed a proposal to unify logging across cloud microservices to increase observability, enable more comprehensive alarming, and allow for quicker discovery of root causes of production issues.
Onboarded and contributed to a SwiftUI app within 1 month. Wrote interactive animations and wizards using the IOS Animation framework.

Bloomberg LP - Senior Software Engineer (2016 - 2021)

Technical lead for client facing projects in which I was responsible for collaborating with engineering and business teams, proactively identifying dependencies and risks, as well as contributing code. Successfully delivered three projects on time including one that led to an initial $350K contract.
Architected and led development on a modular React application that could be deployed within two separate enterprise portals by using the Context API to inject host specific implementations.
Leader in the Bloomberg web community which involved providing guidance on best practices and contributing to inner source initiatives across the firm such as a shared component library.
Developed several high traffic client facing JSON-LD REST API endpoints using Python, Flask, and Marshmallow allowing clients to search and request enterprise data.
Optimized both the frontend and backend of a full stack web application. Examples include reducing the rendering of 70K+ items from minutes to milliseconds and reducing implementation costs of common tasks from weeks to days by re-architecturing how we create CRUD features.
Developed Jenkins CI/CD workflows to ensure reliable software releases. Workflows include automating the verification, packaging, and deployment of various software.

MCS Solutions - Software Developer (2015 - 2016)

Migrated an application from inline JQuery scripts and styles to AngularJS v1.4. Pages were served via a mix of server side rendered HTML and client-side JavaScript.
Utilized PHP Symfony and Doctrine ORM to serve AJAX requests to client side rendered pages.
Modified an open source AngularJS chart library built on D3.js to display custom visualizations.

University at Buffalo - Teaching Assistant (2013 - 2015)

Responsible for teaching weekly Java labs consisting of between 20-30 students each. Taught at least two lectures consisting of 100 students.
Developed a real time 2D game engine in Java for students to easily create interactive programs to explore object oriented programming concepts.

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Landed a change to the NodeJS project to change C++ macros to compile time static expressions.
Contributed to an open-source, browser-based robotic simulation designed to help students practice coding and robotics without the need for physical components.
Assisted in online and physical classes meant to teach highschool aged students computer science. Answered questions and provided help with coding.
Currently building a WordPress powered website for a local historical society to digitize research and provide local history online.

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Designed a website that allows programming LEDs frame-by-frame in real time. Features include an interactive timeline, automatic effects such as fade-in/fade-out, multiple scenes saved to a sqlite database, and a remote control interface to play, queue, and stop scenes.
Designed modular light fixtures in CAD and 3D printed them. Wired and programmed LEDs running on a Raspberry Pi. Programs include a DFS visualization, snake animations with individual moving agents, and others controlled by physical buttons.

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University at Buffalo / B.S. in Computer Science / 2012 - 2016

Light Maze

This was my first large scale 3D printed project. I designed the base and tubes in CAD using Fusion 360 and printed them on my Bambu A1 Mini.

Each tube is wired with a strip of 4 NeoPixels that are soldered together. The NeoPixels are controlled via a RaspberryPi (although its on my list to change that to an Arduino). The whole thing is mounted on 2' x 2' plywood back.

I also designed and printed a button panel. Each button is a tactile switch that sends an input signal to the controller. These inputs control the brightness, animation shown, and changes animation "modes". There are several animations I made: a DFS starting from a random point and traveling to another point, an animation with several independent moving "snakes" that travel through the maze, and a fill animation.

HackrWave

An old microwave with a Raspberry Pi wired to it's internal circuit board

HackrWave was a hackathon project I did during university in which my team tried to turn a regular microwave into a smart microwave. We wanted to be able to scan any barcode and have the microwave correctly cook the food based on what it was.

The project consisted of a Raspberry PI that was connected to the microwave's circuit board, a flask API running on the raspberry pi that could accept commands and send them to the microwave, and an app that could scan a barcode and send a request to the flask server.

Despite not knowing much about hardware or reverse engineering circuit boards, we were able to successfully send commands to the microwave to input a time, power level, and start and stop it all through a mobile application.

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Butterfly Network, Inc - Staff Software Engineer (2021 - Present)

Bloomberg LP - Senior Software Engineer (2016 - 2021)

MCS Solutions - Software Developer (2015 - 2016)

University at Buffalo - Teaching Assistant (2013 - 2015)

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Light Maze

HackrWave

07/08/2024: Hello, World!